OEL would immediately be one of the two best defensemen on the team. Holtby and Virtanen buyouts don’t provide that. Additionally, the proposed trade does not preclude the Canucks from also deciding to buyout Holtby and/or Virtanen. It’s not mutually exclusive.
Take out the retention. Make up for the salary by adding Kulak. Make up the value difference by removing the pick. Ends up OEL for Drouin and Kulak.
That really doesn’t help our budget crunch this season. Drouin and Byron are owed only a million less is cash than OEL is.
I see no reason why Arizona can't wait. They only have three defensemen under contract anyway.
No. Drouin has medical problems and Montreal's 2021 1st. doesn't do much for me. You add in the retention on OEL makes it even easier to say no.
I think OEL is overpaid, but not severely overpaid. I would just as soon keep him.
OEL is a really good defenseman. His aav is 20% too high. But his cash is lik 40% too high. That's the problem for ARI. It's less about the 8.25aav the next few years and more about the 10.5mil in cash each of the next three season. Yotes are an internal budget team (rumored to be around 68mil) and can't have their 2nd best LD making 16% of their entire player budget. I expect him to rebound with his new team, have a great season, and have all of the same morons in this thread saying he sucks, claiming that Arizona got hosed and were incompetent to trade him. These loud mouth know it alls never admit when they're wrong. If he gets traded, they'll all say that the acquiring team was stupid to trade for him . A year from now, they'll say Arizona was stupid to give him away.
