If The Gretzky trade were to happen today- EDM

Created by: hockeyfan78

Team: 2018-19 Edmonton Oilers

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 6, 2018

Published: Sep. 6, 2018

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Connor McDavid is a great young player with a bright future in the NHL, but then again, so was Wayne Gretzky. So I decided to take the basics of the Gretzky trade and apply it to the Edmonton Oilers today.

Trades

EDM

Kopitar, Anze
Kupari, Rasmus
2019 1st round pick (LAK)
2020 1st round pick (LAK)
2021 1st round pick (LAK)

Additional Details:

Edmonton receives $15,000,000

LAK

Buyouts

Benoit Pouliot: $1,333,333
Eric Gryba: $300,000

Buried

Al Montoya: $37,500 ($1,062,500)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2019
2020
2021

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$79,500,000	$66,721,165	$0	$2,500,000	$12,778,835

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Rieder, Tobias $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Kopitar, Anze $10,000,000$10,000,000 C NMC UFA - 6
Caggiula, Drake $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Draisaitl, Leon $8,500,000$8,500,000 C, LW UFA - 7	Kassian, Zack $1,950,000$1,950,000 RW UFA - 2
Khaira, Jujhar $675,000$675,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Nugent-Hopkins, Ryan $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, C UFA - 3	Strome, Ryan $3,100,000$3,100,000 RW, C UFA - 2
Åberg, Pontus $650,000$650,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Brodziak, Kyle $1,150,000$1,150,000 C UFA - 2	Puljujärvi, Jesse $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) RW UFA - 1
		Rattie, Ty $800,000$800,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Sekera, Andrej $5,500,000$5,500,000 LD/RD NMC UFA - 3	Larsson, Adam $4,166,666$4,166,666 RD UFA - 3	Talbot, Cam $4,166,666$4,166,666 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Klefbom, Oscar $4,167,000$4,167,000 LD UFA - 5	Benning, Matthew $1,900,000$1,900,000 RD UFA - 2	Koskinen, Mikko $2,500,000$2,500,000 G NMC UFA - 1
Russell, Kris $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD/RD NMC UFA - 3	Stanton, Ryan $700,000$700,000 LD UFA - 1
Gravel, Kevin $700,000$700,000 LD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Sep. 6, 2018 at 6:27 p.m.

Caps_Man

Daily NHL Follower

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 907

Likes: 175

Hate to break the news to you but you spelled Connor wrong in the description

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Sep. 6, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.

hockeyfan78

Joined: Jan. 2018

Posts: 513

Likes: 70

Thank you, that is very embarrassing.

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Sep. 6, 2018 at 7:19 p.m.

Jangle29

Joined: Apr. 2016

Posts: 3,039

Likes: 832

Would be very interesting to see what angle the Oilers management would take to destroy the career of Koptiar

Sep. 6, 2018 at 10:22 p.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 61,447

Likes: 23,668

The comparisons between Gretzky and McDavid don't quite ring true. McDavid is 21, Gretz was 28. Gretz had won four Stanley Cups at the time of the trade.

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