Quoting: Hullsy09
Foegele is 100% a cap dump. You said it yourself in the trade description, “Not sure if Foegele is getting moved but they need to clear a bit of cap”. Doesn’t mean he is an awful player but if he were being payed less you wouldn’t have felt the need to make that trade. Furthermore, you made that foegele trade after the Kane trade, so in reality that Kane trade would have put you over the cap and forced you to trade foegele to avoid being over the cap. Teams aren’t going to pay to help you out lol - especially when it would put them over the cap.
As for your comments on Pittsburghs off season, I think the majority of penguins fans would agree with me and saying that as a whole Hextall has has a very strong off season in terms of the moves he has made. I like the way he drafted, he managed to keep rakell Malkin Letang AND rust which most penguins fans presumed was impossible, and addressed a need by making the back end a bit heavier and adding a skilled player in petry in the process.
A team needing to clear cap doesnt make it a cap dump. They have other options and he has positive value. Youre clearly intentionally misinterpreting it. The Oilers also arent over the cap with Foegele up, just not being able to have McLeod or Holloway in the lineup.
This is the offseason, cap space doesnt exist. A team can go to 100 million right now. techincally, the Oilers have an additional 6.37 mil against the cap because Klefbom and Smith havent been placed on LTIR yet. They go to LTIR at the beginning of the season.
The Penguins have had a terrible offseason lol. Petry is overpaid and worse than Matheson, who was on a unique but solid deal in terms of AAV, overpaid Rakell, gave Rakell and Rust very long term, and traded away the 2nd best defenseman on the team for the worst analytical player in the NHL. TY Smith is actually garbage. And it doesnt matter if that was to clear cap, literally any other defenseman wouldve been better.
As someone in a neutral position, youre being crazy and very bias. If you dont want/cant do the Foegele trade then fine. But it isnt a cap dump and it wasnt even close.