Rumor: Lucic + Russell for Neal and Frolik

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

The latest trade rumour I’ve heard regarding Milan Lucic….Lucic and Kris Russell to Calgary for James Neal and Michael Frolik. A four-player trade between divisional rivals is rare, especially if it was Edmonton and Calgary. If it does happen, and I’m admittedly skeptical, it would show how lacking in emotion the rivalry is.

Gregor is legit btw.

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[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

Oilers insider Bob Stauffer also hinting at a trade. Wonder if it gets expanded to include the rumored Bennett/Pulju swap.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

That’s pretty bad for Calgary so I’d naturally be all for it as an Oiler fan.

 

[thrillhous]

If this trade went down would it crash hf?

 

[Nico the Draft Riser]

Ill believe it when I see it

 

[CapnZin]

Oilers insider Bob Stauffer also hinting at a trade. Wonder if it gets expanded to include the rumored Bennett/Pulju swap.

Why would the Flames trade Bennett for Pulju??? What else would EDM be adding?

 

[crazyfisherman]

Makes sense cuz we dont have enough defenseman... Oh wait

 

[clunk]

Yikes that's bad for Calgary.

 

[ThreeOfAPerfectPair]

Why would the Flames trade Bennett for Pulju??? What else would EDM be adding?

Flames have always coveted Puljujarvi.

 

[These Are The Days]

Just throwing oil onto the fire boys

 

[Hale The Villain]

Wouldn't touch that if I were Treleving unless Edmonton added a significant plus.

Neal @ 5.75M > Lucic @ 6M with a NMC
Frolik @ 4.1M > Russell at 4M for an extra year

And Bennett > Puljujarvi too.

 

[Malkinstheman]

Wow that would be pretty good for the oilers. I dont know if its an age or slump thing but neal is great as the triggerman with a good passer. This trade gives the oilers two very serviceable top-9 players.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

If this trade went down would it crash hf?

Flames fans will... BURN IT DOWN.

 

[CraigsList]

What the hell? I sure as hell hope that this isn't the case. We better be getting a 1st as part of that if that's the case.

 

[Leafs at Knight]

Yea I'll give this trade like a 1% chance of happening.

 

[BB88]

Yikes that's bad for Calgary.

Neal for Lucic seems pretty mehh move, 32y Neal isn't the biggest threat out there.

Adding extra year on Russell is weak though, for Oilers would mean losing even more depth from already thin blueline.

 

[Kevin Musto]

 

[Baxterman]

That is a horrible deal for Calgary even if we needed a defenseman and didn't need RW help but considering that Russell couldn't crack our line-up and without Frolik our RW depth goes down to nothing it makes absolute no sense at all.

The reason to move Frolik is to get cap space this does not do that at all. I don't think that Gregor throws out crap but it really makes zero sense at all for Calgary.

 

[thaman8765678]

Are the Oilers throwing in 2 unprotected 1sts? And why would we want Lucic?

 

[Senor Catface]

Just throwing oil onto the fire boys

 

[Captain Controversy]

Yeah right.. If this happens, I am gonna be perma drunk and buy coke. lol

 

[Jordan Belfort]

Horrible for Calgary. Lucic is literally probably the worst player in the league..

 

[AvatarAang]

seems odd that lucic will end up playing for edmonton and calgary before vancouver.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Horrible for Calgary. Lucic is literally probably the worst player in the league..

You can say that again!

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

On some level it makes sense if the Oilers retain like 50% on Lucic.

Oilers use up their cap space but at least they get back 2 wingers, improving their top 9 especially if Neal bounces back. Holland missed out on FA wingers.

Flames free up the space to sign Tkachuk, Bennett, Mangiapane and Rittich. What they have right now isn't enough, with this deal they'd have ~15M to do it. Lucic brings some toughness to their 4th line and @ 3M isn't overpaid to the same degree Neal is if he continues to play bad. Russell's deal is up in 2 years so that's easy to manage. I guess they would then send down Valimaki and Kylington to play in the minors full time and ice a veteran dcore + Andersson for a year.

What makes it possible is the Flames need to free up space. Neal would then determine who "wins" the trade. Holland goes f*** it and throws Pulju there too just to get it done. If Neal is the wild card for potentially being a good add for the Oilers (or the complete opposite), Pulju would give that same factor to the Flames as well.

Although.. you'd think there's easier way for Calgary to free up the space they need. On the other hand, it would just show how difficult it is to free up cap space at this time of the year these days, with so few teams in a position to take back big salary. Have to get creative.

I hope it happens just so we can have a shake up and stop talking about Lucic trades.



James Neal (5.750M - 4 years)
Michael Frolik (4.300M - 1 year)



Milan Lucic (@50% retained 3.000M - 4 years - NMC)
Kris Russell (4.000M - 2 years - NMC)
Jesse Puljujarvi (RFA)
+ pick ?

Here's how it would look:

Oilers - Oilers-Flames swap - CapFriendly - NHL Salary Caps

Flames - Oilers-Flames swap - CapFriendly - NHL Salary Caps