Oilers 2018-2019

Wow, money sure will be tight... I think Gambardella will be the eventual Letestu replacement. It'll be interesting to watch Caggiula and Slepyshev this year - Drake had a better season last year but i think Anton has a higher upside. Whatever happens this season will go a long way to determining what their contracts will look like. It might be a good idea to sign both to 5 x $2MM contracts this summer - one will end up being a bargain and the other will still be trade-able.

Yeah, I don't think this is realistically possible. I think a bunch of contracts are possibly short. Nurse, Benning, Slepyshev, Caggiula, Brossoit, and Draisaitl may all be higher. Maybe $.5M each. 6 x $.5M = $3.0M. If they all want $.5M more Edmonton would be $3M over cap. Meaning they have to save some big $ somewhere. The only remaining moveable contracts are Nugent-Hopkins and Kassian. Klefbom and Larsson are steals, so trading them would be a definite backward move. If you trade Nuge for someone, I'm not sure you can get fair value and still save $3M. So they have to hope to get lucky on some of those contracts or unload Nuge & Kassian, or Nuge and let one of the other contracts walk away. Possible returns for Nuge: Radko Gudas, Brendan Gallagher, Boone Jenner, Erik Gudbranson. some would require some prospects or pick coming to Edmonton as well to even things up due to some short contract lengths (Gudbranson & Jenner).