Confirmed Signing with Link: [EDM] F Leon Draisaitl signs extension with the Oilers (8 years, $14M AAV; begins 2025-26)

[CanadasTeam99]

All I’m saying is I lived for 6 years in NJ and travel back there twice a month. I promise you I don’t love it. But the money’s great!

I have been to NJ and NY and I would never move back there. Rip off. I enjoy owning multiple houses and building wealth.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

I would say this is "fair value". I was thinking the Oilers would get a bit of a discount considering the comments about taking less to win, especially considering this contract will expire when he's 37 years old, but I guess it is what it is.

he has been taking less for 8 years now

 

[CanadasTeam99]

Only people complaining about this deal are non Edmonton fans. He's 28 right? Not 35. He's still got so many years of massive production on him, the end of the contract doesn't matter. They have a huge window if and when they sign McDavid and Bouchard. People can say look at the salary cap percentages but the top 2 earners are actually worth it.

The only people complaining are guys in their basements that were wishing he left .

wtf

I don't find three on zeros post bad in nature. JG passing was horrible It could make a guy like Leon hurry up and sign. He didn't take a discount though.

 

[jetsforever]

Good job by Edmonton to manage to keep him

 

[CanadasTeam99]

guess this guarantees McDavid is resigning then? 30M for McDrai is going to be a big problem going forward

Yeah having two guys throw playoff numbers like Lemieux and Gretz is going to be horrible. lol. Not ghosts like Petersson, etc

 

[GOilers88]

I can help you out... he gets scored on so much that his 5v5 production ends up being irrelevant.

Not a cherry-picked stat... some people just care about the other 100 feet of ice.

So you knocked him for his 5v5 production and pointed to his power play production. Then when you were shown you were wrong about his even strength production you pivoted to his even strength production is irrelevant.

Solid.

 

[bucks_oil]

The last three years of this contract will hurt. Leon will be 35, 36 and 37 for most of those 3 years (October birthday).

A similar player (impact wise) is Patrick Kane. Imagine paying Kaner 14 million last year, this year and next? (November birthday).

Edit.....Just to clarify....I don't see any other option here for Edmonton. Drai is absolutely needed to compete for that Cup over the next 5 years. I just think it'll hurt in the end.

You are forgetting about cap growth.

The cap is likely to be $116M in 2031 https://www.prohockeyrumors.com/202...xt=The salary cap would be,cap hit in 2022-23.

Draisaitl will be 35. His contract will be $14M/116 or ~10M in today's dollars.

A 36 year old Thornton (who, minus the one-timer, has always been my closest comparable play style to Drai) finished 5th in Hart and Selke voting.

This is the price of doing business in the NHL. McD and Drai are going to have contracts that will age similarly to Malkin and Crosby. They'll be declining in play as the cap rises. The Oilers are unlikely to be competitive in their twilight years, but that will likely be because they've continued to spend futures on present over the next 5-6 years to ensure the best chance at winning cup(s).

Oilers fans are happy with that trade off... if you are going to have contracts that age-out, it might as well be for two first-ballot HoFers.

Oilers have 9 players (7 really) in the Hockey Hall of Fame... not a single player played their entire career, or even their entire prime, in Edmonton. It would be nice to have a first "Career Oiler".

 

[GeeoffBrown]

May he fill this contract with 70 point seasons!

 

[nerevarine]

The most important signing of the year. No one can compete with the oilers for the next decade.

 

[Breakers]

Close to $200 mill in career earnings.

Matthews should reach it
same with McDavid

 

[TGWL]

and people said mackinnon didn't a discount ..

very fair deal for drai and the oilers.

That was 2 years ago. He gets more money today if signing that contract. % against the cap, it's not far off.

 

[olafsson]

Oilers fans seem to be under the impression that 8 years means he’ll end up being a career Oiler. He could just as easily ask for a trade a few years down the line when Edmonton sinks into the toilet

 

[MikeK]

So he's going to be 30yrs old when this deal kicks in? Yikes. I get that EDM had no real option here, but this has the potential to be a terrible contract should he hit a wall in his early 30s like a lot of people do. He's already a lot of hard miles on that hockey frame. An 8 year extension at $14M per is an awful lot for a soon to be 30 year old.

 

[CanadasTeam99]

Working out well for Calgary with Huberdeau.

There is a lot of risk in locking up elite players for as long as you can.

At a certain point, the risk is too great.

Jeezus Christ did I just see a Huberdeau Drai comparison lol. That's like comparing Taylor Swift to Michael Jackson.

 

[notbias]

Jeezus Christ did I just see a Huberdeau Drai comparison lol. That's like comparing Taylor Swift to Michael Jackson.

Who is another all offense, no defense player who didn't live up to their big contract?

Panarin? Still a great player.

Love all the other fanbases in here fantasizing about Leon not doing well for some reason

Weirdos

Father time in undefeated, weirdo.

 

[CanadasTeam99]

"In the last 3 Playoff seasons Leon ranksoints: 81 (2nd)Goals: 30 (T-1st)Assists: 51 (2nd)PPG: 15 (1st)"

and 1st in GA.

I am simply saying this contract might age badly and people are getting upset.

A player who is approaching the end of his prime (most likely) is signing an 8 year contract at a very large AAV.

Obviously it will age bad in the last years (to which we don't know). THat is not rocket science. What was your alternative? Let him leave? lol Like jeezus christ what are we arguing here?

 

[CanadasTeam99]

That's a lot for a dude who didn't do much in the finals. Obviously a great player but they still gotta sign McDavid

Broken ribs and a broken thumb buddy. Your stars didn't do anything in the finals. Bob won that thing.

 

[Three On Zero]

Canucks fans should be happy the rivalry is here to stay , yet here you are trying to bring down Oilers fans on a big day,

Or are you just spitting facts and have no intention of making Oilers fans upset?
In that case my bad

Not much of a rivalry, Edmonton should be a contender and Vancouver should be a playoff hopeful/middling team.

 

[TGWL]

Obviously it will age bad in the last years (to which we don't know). THat is not rocket science. What was your alternative? Let him leave? lol Like jeezus christ what are we arguing here?

Exactly. Their window is now. You have to pay your best players and say whatever happens to the team in years 6-9 is out of your hands because the window to win is now, and you have to go for it. T Trading him doesn't make them better unless you're getting a Draisaitl level player coming back or quickly becoming one. Letting him walk because you think the money is too much is just ruining the window to compete.

 

[Frank Drebin]

They have Mackinnon/Matthews?

Best satire account on hf

 

[McFlyingV]

Pretty fair deal. 9/10 more years of McDrai presumably. Sign me up these two are a treat to watch and this pretty much guarantees the Oil as a contender/playoff team for the foreseeable future. Great news for the city.

For anyone crapping on the deal. The cap will have likely risen close to 30 million throughout the length of this contract. Draisaitl's raise will easily be offset by the cap going up.

 

[Three On Zero]

Working out well for Calgary with Huberdeau.

There is a lot of risk in locking up elite players for as long as you can.

At a certain point, the risk is too great.

With how heavily reliant Draisiatl is on McDavid, the contract will always be good unless McDavid leaves (he won’t). Draisaitl thrives on being the second man to cover without being “the guy”

 

[notbias]

Obviously it will age bad in the last years (to which we don't know). THat is not rocket science. What was your alternative? Let him leave? lol Like jeezus christ what are we arguing here?

I am arguing that this contract doesn't seem like a win to me unless you only care about the next few years.

People are celebrating it as if there is no downside... the downside is there and it is big.

It might start aging badly quicker than the last years too.

The contract might end up being great too, there is always that possibility, time will tell, but I don't see it working out well.

 

[Relapsing]

Of course the downside here is that Matthews can re-sign at a lower cap hit if his play declines after 5 years, while Leon will just keep trucking along at 14m as a third line C if he does as everyone does and gets older and not as effective.

Tavares has performed basically as well as any Leafs fan could have hoped from a points perspective, but we'd all be happier if he wasnt making 11m this coming season.

His 65 regular season pts last year say otherwise. So does his 2 pts in 7 playoff games.

 

[Bounces R Way]

That's a lot of hooch.

Don't think this one ages super well but should extend the Oilers cup window a cpl years at least, so mission accomplished for Stan. He's got a lot of miles on him and takes a ton of contact. As long as he's got McDavid feeding him for that bottom of the circle PP goal he'll be fine.