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

[McFlyingV]

It will grow 11% over the next 4.

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That's 3 years, which is 2 years of Drai's new contract and 1 of McDavid's if he signs.

 

[HighLifeMan]

Also facts...

Draisaitl with McDavid vs without during that stretch. (3 playoffs).

TOI - 374 mins / 475 mins (5v5)
CF% - 59.14 / 45.10
SF% - 56.29 / 43.10
GF% - 69.09 / 38.89
xGF% - 60.23 / 44.56
SCF% - 60.65 / 45.82

Also facts.

14M is a lot to pay a player that hasn't shown the ability to carry his own line - especially in his 30+ years. You'd think a "top 2" player in the world could and would find success with lesser line mates.

In saying that - I don't blame the Oilers for signing this deal and it really is the only feasible outcome. It's the best shot they have at winning, so take that chance while you have it.

 

[McFlyingV]

He is already falling off. A player can only take so many injuries.

He hasn't had a single serious injury. Fractured ribs? A high ankle sprain? Broken finger? Not a single one of those injuries has lasting long-term effects.

He's about to get his best pair of wingers he has ever had when playing centre in Edmonton. Just wait until he doesn't have to lug around two 3rd or 4th line wingers. His "falling off" will evidently be proven untrue.

 

[Frank Drebin]

Draisatl may be the best player ever that can't carry his own line.

 

[The Red Mile]

McDavid is going to get 16 million AAV now! Good to see everyone staying in Edmonton!

 

[Czechboy]

I thought the Oilers were supposed to take less for the team? Or that only applies to the young guys and vets at the end of their career?

What do you think drai would've got as a UFA?

 

[La Bamba]

Draisaitl with McDavid vs without during that stretch. (3 playoffs).

TOI - 374 mins / 475 mins (5v5)
CF% - 59.14 / 45.10
SF% - 56.29 / 43.10
GF% - 69.09 / 38.89
xGF% - 60.23 / 44.56
SCF% - 60.65 / 45.82

Also facts.

14M is a lot to pay a player that hasn't shown the ability to carry his own line - especially in his 30+ years. You'd think a "top 2" player in the world could and would find success with lesser line mates.

In saying that - I don't blame the Oilers for signing this deal and it really is the only feasible outcome. It's the best shot they have at winning, so take that chance while you have it.

This guy beat the shit out of the Flames on 1 leg

 

[Three On Zero]

What do you think drai would've got as a UFA?

14-14.5 over 7 years

 

[McFlyingV]

Draisaitl with McDavid vs without during that stretch. (3 playoffs).

TOI - 374 mins / 475 mins (5v5)
CF% - 59.14 / 45.10
SF% - 56.29 / 43.10
GF% - 69.09 / 38.89
xGF% - 60.23 / 44.56
SCF% - 60.65 / 45.82

Also facts.

14M is a lot to pay a player that hasn't shown the ability to carry his own line - especially in his 30+ years. You'd think a "top 2" player in the world could and would find success with lesser line mates.

In saying that - I don't blame the Oilers for signing this deal and it really is the only feasible outcome. It's the best shot they have at winning, so take that chance while you have it.

Name a single top 6 winger that Drai played with last year outside of Kane who played through a hernia all year. Yeah I know all the other superstars in the league get it done with 3rd and 4th line wingers. I'll wait for you to post a list of all those aforementioned superstars.

 

[Half Clapper]

He hasn't had a single serious injury. Fractured ribs? A high ankle sprain? Broken finger? Not a single one of those injuries has lasting long-term effects.

Fair point. How can you explain his stats away from McDavid? He didn't look so hot without him carrying play. I think in 21-22 he was a special player worth every penny he is getting now, but I watched him last year, and I didn't think he was as good. He gets a lot of his points on the PP and didn't look like an elite line driver.

 

[bland]

That's a LOT of cap space for 2 players.
But it there are any 2 players deserving, these guys are pretty much it.

The Oilers decided it was better to market two stars than to have a reasonable chance at a Cup. Probably a wiser financial decision, but it is next to impossible for stars to carry enough weight to cover for a team increasingly filled with younger and lower quality players.

 

[KCC]

Draisaitl with McDavid vs without during that stretch. (3 playoffs).

TOI - 374 mins / 475 mins (5v5)
CF% - 59.14 / 45.10
SF% - 56.29 / 43.10
GF% - 69.09 / 38.89
xGF% - 60.23 / 44.56
SCF% - 60.65 / 45.82

Also facts.

14M is a lot to pay a player that hasn't shown the ability to carry his own line - especially in his 30+ years. You'd think a "top 2" player in the world could and would find success with lesser line mates.

In saying that - I don't blame the Oilers for signing this deal and it really is the only feasible outcome. It's the best shot they have at winning, so take that chance while you have it.

You also have to remember that injuries have really hampered him the last few playoffs. 3 years ago against the Flames he was on one leg, the Pietrangelo slash on his arm last playoffs and then these last playoffs he had a broken finger and rib problems. Which really sucks. But he deserved a big pay raise. And he wants to stay which is great news if you are an Oilers fan. Too often players have bolted.

 

[Jacob]

McDavid & Draisaitl are going to take up 1/3rd of their cap space.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Feels like a few years ago the top players were only getting like 8 million a year; I still haven’t adjusted to the rising cap

 

[Curufinwe]

Draisaitl's $14m AAV under a $92m cap in 25-26 will be 15.27%

Crosby's $8.7m AAV under the $56.7m cap in 08-09 was 15.34%.

 

[McFlyingV]

Fair point. How can you explain his stats away from McDavid? He didn't look so hot without him carrying play. I think in 21-22 he was a special player worth every penny he is getting now, but I watched him last year, and I didn't think he was as good. He gets a lot of his points on the PP and didn't look like an elite line driver.

Didn't have a single top 6 winger to play with. His most common line mates were Kane (who was injured the entire season, a shell of himself playing injured, and not exactly the type of winger that meshes with a Draisaitl type centre because his cycle game isn't great), Foegele (bottom 6 winger), McLeod (bottom 6 winger), Holloway (4th line winger). There just wasn't much skill at all around him, and he rarely if ever got the Bouchard/Ekholm pairing.

He should get a massive bump in wingers this year getting 2 of Skinner, Arvidsson, Nuge, Hyman. Hopefully the changes on the Oilers right side D gives them better puck moving. In theory swapping Ceci + Desharnais for Stetcher and Emberson should give them much better puck movers for Drai. Ideally I'd like them to add a better top 4 puck moving D, but I'm willing to see how Emberson does and address that at the deadline.

 

[Curufinwe]

Feels like a few years ago the top players were only getting like 8 million a year; I still haven’t adjusted to the rising cap

2008 was 16 years ago.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Draisaitl with McDavid vs without during that stretch. (3 playoffs).

TOI - 374 mins / 475 mins (5v5)
CF% - 59.14 / 45.10
SF% - 56.29 / 43.10
GF% - 69.09 / 38.89
xGF% - 60.23 / 44.56
SCF% - 60.65 / 45.82

Also facts.

14M is a lot to pay a player that hasn't shown the ability to carry his own line - especially in his 30+ years. You'd think a "top 2" player in the world could and would find success with lesser line mates.

In saying that - I don't blame the Oilers for signing this deal and it really is the only feasible outcome. It's the best shot they have at winning, so take that chance while you have it.

Ah yes, the hart winner who cant carry his own line...

 

[McFlyingV]

Draisaitl's $14m AAV under a $92m cap in 25-26 will be 15.27%

Crosby's $8.7m AAV under the $56.7m cap in 08-09 was 15.34%.

This is good perspective that some people should really acknowledge. We are also currently in a time period where the cap is expected to rise significantly faster than it did in 2008-09.

 

[HighLifeMan]

Name a single top 6 winger that Drai played with last year outside of Kane who played through a hernia all year. Yeah I know all the other superstars in the league get it done with 3rd and 4th line wingers. I'll wait for you to post a list of all those aforementioned superstars.

That's a three year sample size. His most common linemates other than #97 over that period of time were Hyman, RNH and Kane. Those are top six players.

 

[ManofSteel55]

so basically the oilers got one more shot next season and then comes the decline, because we all know Bouchard is getting at least 8 mill, prob closer to 9.

I'm not sure why the decline would come when the cap is going to continue to go up as well. Bouchard probably gets 10M, if he continues what he did last year. The core of the team will be locked up until their careers are over, and yes, that will eat up a ton of our space, but after Bouchard extends, and hopefully McDavid does as well, we only have to worry about Skinner's next contract, and filling out the team around them. I expect that the Oilers will be able to do well in free agency for a few years still. Like every other team, it will all depend on how they bring in support players to fill out the roster with the core locked in place.

Hopefully staying long term - Bouchard and McDavid, possibly S. Skinner (2 years, then UFA)
Locked in long term - Draisaitl, Hyman, Nugent Hopkins, Nurse (bad contract)

I don't think a team in the league wouldn't be happy with that core locked up for the next 4 year+. Only Nurse's deal is an issue. You fill the spots around those guys as you can, because that's enough to be a very good team and remain a contender for a long time if our GM doesn't completely shit the bed with building the future and finding quality, affordable role players.

 

[McFlyingV]

Ah yes, the hart winner who cant carry his own line...

Except he did (in that Hart season) when he had top 6 line mates while McDavid was injured.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Except he did (in that Hart season) when he had top 6 line mates while McDavid was injured.

Ya exactly my point.

 

[BHawk21]

To me, the Oilers are a fragile team on the downswing. I think they had their shot last season and blew it.

they have this year but after that it gets tough.

 

[KCC]

Draisaitl's $14m AAV under a $92m cap in 25-26 will be 15.27%

Crosby's $8.7m AAV under the $56.7m cap in 08-09 was 15.34%.

Yup. People forget Crosby didn't exactly ask for a discount either.