Dan Kelly
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Oilers are out again when we all thought this might have been the year. What shore up moves do we make to actually with the cup next year and how do we afford it?
Bye, Yamamoto.
Hello, $3 million in capspace.
Fresh off a season exit, natural to think moves need to be made. But honestly, this team does not need to do much.
If they get decent goaltending they had a real shot at winning the cup this year.
Going into next year, replace Yamo in the top 6 and add another top 4 d man. That's probably all you need to do. If the goaltending is still sub par at the trade deadline, buy a goalie.
That's be fine if we had an extra $7 million in cap space laying around but we don't. Yamamoto's money is going to be dumped for example, so sure you might think "great we have cap room!" ... no you don't. That money goes straight into Bouchard's bank account, not to an upgrade winger.
Realistically, they could go into next season with the identical team, get even mediocre goaltending in the playoffs, and win the cup.
It's natural to want to blow shit up after an event like this but this is a pretty good team that was hell bent on riding a rookie goalie to their demise. I doubt they make the same mistake again next year. Don't think they need to do anything crazy.
That said, I think it will be Ceci and Yamo going.
I think they can win 1-2 rounds every year just off raw talent ... the problem is round 3/4.
The issue is these other teams are pretty good and they get better as the playoffs go on until eventually you do run into a team that will make you pay for all the lazy/little mistakes the Oilers are prone to making (ie: players like Nurse and Ceci and Desharnais and Skinner).
Probably start watching NBA instead. The NHL is a garage league.
I'll make a guess for next seasons opening day roster.
RNH-Mcdavid-Sprong
Kane-Draisaitl-Hyman
Foegele-Mcleod-Ryan
Holloway-Bjustad-Lewis
Kostin
Ekholm-Bouchard
Nurse-Severson
Broberg-VD
Niemo
Skinner
Campbell
Yamo, Ceci and Kulak out as cap casualties and to make room for Broberg and Holloway.
I think so as well but it’s what they might do to save some cap and get Broberg full time minutes.Would be brutal to lose Kulak after how good of a season and playoff he had.
Parayko was poor this year based on what the folks in STL were saying. So, no.Yamamoto+Ceci+Kulak out.
Wilson and Parayko in.
Move Campbell it you feel you need the cap space even though I thought he played well in the small amount of time he had.
Oilers are out again when we all thought this might have been the year. What shore up moves do we make to actually with the cup next year and how do we afford it?
He has a full NMC.Trade nuge while his value can be argued to be high.
We need a good playoff team not a regular season team.