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Originally Posted by NhlNut
FU Maroon
FU Oil. I was kinda sad Chia is ****ing up your team but no more. Go back to the tank. Enjoy Lucic and Russell and wasting the best player in the league.
It will be very interesting to see what happens on their bye week, when it's clear to even the most starry eyed dreamer than the playoffs are not happening this year. The problem is that due to the committments to McD+Drai, and the inability to move Russell+Lucic+Sekera, the team doesn't exactly have a ton of flexibility in making changes.
If you deem their core to be McDavid/Draisaitl/Nuge/Puljujarvi/Klefbom/Nurse/Larsson/Talbot, then with your untradeables, you have 63-64M (depending on Nurse's RFA contract) of next year's cap already allocated for just 11 players. Plus 1.3M burned up to buyout Pouliot
for no reason at all.
Ideal move at this point (assuming you have no way to get rid of any of the NMC guys)? Move Draisaitl. His value relative to performance is enormous, his cap savings would be tremendous. You can move him and take back a very useful 4-5M player without crushing the team.
What will happen? Nuge and Klefbom will somehow be traded for nothing.
It's very difficult to be an Oilers fan and see the hardest parts (finding elite scorers, solid goaltending, no long term cap problems) all in place, and them destroy it.