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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 29, 2021 at 2:19 p.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 27, 2021 at 11:29 a.m.
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>Not even touching the fact that Neal is still a very useful player (if overpaid), the Oilers have ZERO interest in trading A-class assets to move his contract. Why? Because they can buy him out with just a $1.9M cap hit if they want to be rid of him. Trading a 1st to move 100% of his contract just doesn't add up: the $1.9M saved will buy a bottom-6 winger on the UFA market, and nobody in their right mind is going to trade a 1st for a bottom-6 winger who's only worth $1.9M on the open market. It's a terrible use of assets.

I put this together to show just how much cap space Edmonton has this summer. There's absolutely NO pressure on this team to trade assets with Neal. I signed all the RFA's but no UFA's to illustrate what a clean slate the team has going into free agency. Some are calling for a Koskinen buyout (which would save an additional $3M) but I find that unrealistic and probably just a reaction to recent poor play, so I didn't bother with that.

Yamamoto's comps: Bjorkstrand (3.14%), Kase (3.27%) and Kapanen (3.93%).

One of these players will be selected by Seattle, but leaving that aside we can see that the Oilers have 5 open spots and $26M in cap space. That's up to $5.2M each. Even if they pay Nuge $7M that leaves $4.75M x 4 available.

They DO NOT need to spend assets to move James Neal, or any other player. In any case, Neal has produced 25 goals &amp; 43 points per 82 games as an Oiler, so he's not as overpaid as many here seem to think.

<a href="https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/426959">https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/426959</a></div></div>
There is no question if Neal is overpaid or not and this really isn’t debatable. We can debate the level he’s overpaid but no one in their right mind is giving him 5.75M as a FA.

19 points in 63 games for Calgary.
31 points in 55 games for Edmonton (19 PP points)
10 points in 29 games this season

Half of his EV production is second assists too &amp; he’s not exactly known for his defensive acumen.

It’s 1.9M for 4 years and 7.6M in cash so another team isn’t going to take that on for a non premium pick (which easily can be mitigated with a protection on the pick) regardless of how much cap Holland will have to work with. The question becomes what do you value that 1.9M for four years which makes you able to upgrade a 1M for 4th liner to 3M. We’ve seen teams trade first round picks recently for bottom six forwards (Goodrow, Coleman) and we’ve seen second rounders (Boyle). If you don’t want to move Neal because the cost then I can absolutely understand especially given who has Holland has signed in the last few years in Detroit (eg Weiss, Nielsen, Abby) but teams aren’t going to take him on at a discount because Holland has cap this offseason.