seanlinden
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The entire premise of this thread is quite flawed.
Edmonton appears to be quite "set" for the start of the season at this point. A Kane LTIR should get them under the cap.... so they don't "need" to shed $18m in cap space.
That being said, let's say the Oilers did want to "cash out" on Draisaitl to avoid the risk of having Draisaitl walk to UFA on the day McDavid becomes eligible for an extension... the last thing they're going to do is "burden" that trade with Darnell Nurse.
There are very few teams in the league that can look at adding $18m to 2 players at this point in the offseason.... even if you assume that there's salary coming the other way, nobody wants to make THAT kind of monumental shift.
Furthermore, anyone that acquires Draisaitl is doing so with the likely mindset of extending him well over $10m. Adding Nurse, likely makes that extremely difficult.
You've gotta look at these as 2 separate issues. Get whatever haul you can for Draisaitl... maybe a piece or two of that goes to help deal with the Nurse situation down the road.
Edmonton appears to be quite "set" for the start of the season at this point. A Kane LTIR should get them under the cap.... so they don't "need" to shed $18m in cap space.
That being said, let's say the Oilers did want to "cash out" on Draisaitl to avoid the risk of having Draisaitl walk to UFA on the day McDavid becomes eligible for an extension... the last thing they're going to do is "burden" that trade with Darnell Nurse.
There are very few teams in the league that can look at adding $18m to 2 players at this point in the offseason.... even if you assume that there's salary coming the other way, nobody wants to make THAT kind of monumental shift.
Furthermore, anyone that acquires Draisaitl is doing so with the likely mindset of extending him well over $10m. Adding Nurse, likely makes that extremely difficult.
You've gotta look at these as 2 separate issues. Get whatever haul you can for Draisaitl... maybe a piece or two of that goes to help deal with the Nurse situation down the road.