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

[DearDiary]

UFA he gets 7x$16M easily.

If he could get 16 million easily, then is it possible that he could have gotten 18 million from atleast 1 team?

 

[commie]

He helped his team lose the finals too... what's your point?

lol what a joke
31 team’s fan base would take the loosing in game 7 of the SCF lol

You need players to make it that far

Or are you happy to cheer for your beloved leafs to lose in the 1st every year, because you don’t want to lose in game 7 of the finals?

 

[jackjohnson]

Mack had 6 points and a -1 in 6 games in his finals.

Did he have a great finals?

Makar went 0-0-0 -1 in game 6.

Did he have a great finals?

No need to get emotional. In the end Makar and Mckinnon won the cup.

 

[Mr Positive]

I would say if he would have signed for 13 mil or lower it would be team friendly discount. 14 mil seems like a fair conract for him, not a steal or discount by any means. I think he would get 14 mil or 14.5 mil in free agency too. No team would give him max if he is not mcdavid

In honesty, early in the offseason Drai's agent said that Leon had already given a lot of team friendly contract years, so we knew the cap hit would be high. Imo Drai did leave money on the table but more like 500k. Or maybe 2 million if money was all that mattered and he'd be willing to go to a bottom feeder with all the cash in the world

And for the team, there will be not much difference. We are paying 5.5 million more, but more than that much dead cap will come off the books by then.

The tough part is that we ALSO have to pay Bouchard like 6 million more

 

[stewy04]

we need an emergency shipment of copium from Toronto

And more to Vancouver!

 

[K1984]

Love reading all the mental math that explains away any Oiler success, and how they're actually not very good.

Fans outside of Edmonton seem to spend as much or more time constructing narratives about the Oilers than they do thinking about their own teams.

 

[oXo Cube]

If he could get 16 million easily, then is it possible that he could have gotten 18 million from atleast 1 team?

Maybe, but once the numbers start getting that high you have to start ruling out the teams that are actually any good which probably prevents it from happening in reality.

There are some decent squads out there that could make it work at 15-16M.

 

[jackjohnson]

UFA he gets 7x$16M easily.

He would not get 16 mil, not even close. Not many teams would be able to afford to sign him to that deal or even risk 16 mil to sign a player that might not play as well as he does next to McDavid.

 

[stewy04]

You caught me. I'll give the Oilers next year and then I think it's downhill from there. I just think there is a lot to not like about the oilers. stan bowman, corey perry, evander kane, years of being gifted 1st overall picks while other teams never got the opportunity, a creepy asshole owner, giving Virtanen a PTO, Craig Mctavish, Kevin Lowe etc.

And Drai still wants to be there! In Utah I'm sure there are no weird creeps lol

 

[Three On Zero]

I would say if he would have signed for 13 mil or lower it would be team friendly discount. 14 mil seems like a fair conract for him, not a steal or discount by any means. I think he would get 14 mil or 14.5 mil in free agency too. No team would give him max if he is not mcdavid

His projected was between 13-13.5, to be a truly team friend contract he would have had to take less than 13. Somewhat in line with what some journalists think

 

[Coffey]

No need to get emotional. In the end Makar and Mckinnon won the cup.

Not emotional.
Logical.

Sometimes the best players are underwhelming and a team still wins.
Sometimes the best players are great and a team doesn't win.

Just poor arguments.

 

[Sparksrus3]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1830972691182166344

https://x.com/i/web/status/1830969533802389620

We can all expect the first 10 dollar hot dog to be at an Oilers game . Seems like only yesterday when Gretzky signed a 10 year 3 million dollar deal with the Oilers . ( That’s 3 million total value not annual ) OYE !!!

 

[Erep]

He would not get 16 mil, not even close. Not many teams would be able to afford to sign him to that deal or even risk 16 mil to sign a player that might not play as well as he does next to McDavid.

Not saying it would be a good idea, but it would be Tavares all over again. (Probably with the same end result on the team that signed him.)

 

[Mike Liut]

It’s a good thing they didn’t match on Broberg and Holloway

 

[VainGretzky]

I love all the emotional damage this has caused other fan bases

 

[CanadienShark]

Just because you racked up 4 points in a blow out 8-1 game doesn't mean you had a good finals. He probably wishes he could've saved some of those points for game 7 eh.

He doubled Barkov in scoring.

Anyways, this is about Draisaitl, who had an outstanding playoffs despite an underwhelming finals.

 

[ManofSteel55]

Just a reminder, your team hasnt seen a cup final in 57 years. Matthews leads the Leafs to a disappearing act in the 1st round. Helluva magician.

Sit this one out kid.

Can we remind him about how they have never even won the third round of a playoff series next? Ha ha ha.

 

[Soundwave]

When Pittsburgh won the Cup in 2016, their top 3 forwards (Crosby/Malkin/Kessel) + no.1 D (Letang) + no.1 goalie (MAF) were a combined 53.5% of the cap, in 2017 it's actually even worse than that because Letang didn't play in the playoffs so they won the Cup anyway with their top available players being more like 60% of their playing roster cap in the playoffs (-7.25 mill for Letang who was unavailable).

McDavid at 16, Draisaitl at 14, Hyman at 5.5, Bouchard at 11 even, Skinner at say 5 would against a 96 million dollar cap would be 53.6% of the cap.

I think 96 mill cap in two years is on the low side too, the TV rights in Canada are up in two years, and regardless of what people say about live TV, every major pro sport has seen a massive increase in a new deal for contract renewal, even the NHL's new US TV contract is way bigger than their previous one. Sportsnet may have to live with no having exclusive rights, but a package between Sportsnet + TSN/RDS + Amazon will likely be considerably larger than the current TV deal.

 

[CanadasTeam99]

When did Myers get himv

he broke his ribs coming across the blueline. It ruined Drais playoffs. Darly Katz embraced him after the Dallas Series and told him not to worry. I have a source that works in the room. He was useless in the finals and a lot of the Dallas series.

 

[Coffee]

And more to Vancouver!

You’re right, there’s no such thing as a confident Canadian NHL fanbase


Except maybe oilers

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

This picture gets me more and more uncomfortable every time I see it

Well maybe you shouldn't have approached McDavid and asked to take that picture with him?

 

[SI90]

Well maybe you shouldn't have approached McDavid and asked to take that picture with him?

I didn't ask, just grabbed his arm while in line and told my friend to snap the shot before he has a chance to react lol

 

[ManofSteel55]

2022 - Pounded hard by the Avalanche
2023 - Not really close by the Knights
2024 - Nearly swept by the Panthers

Im not really sure why bragging that the Cup winner took you out behind the shed is a flex, but ok.

They had a legendary PK% in 2024 which is highly unlikely to repeat again. The big guns can lead them far enough, but the obvious weaknesses are still there and assuming the big 3 sign for a collective $40M, they'll be handicapped.

1) Every team was pounded hard by the Avalanche. That was one of the most dominant playoff runs in history, They were never trailing in a series in the entire playoffs. They lost 4 games combined, and they thumped every team they played in at least one game. The Avalanche literally took the entire league behind the woodshed here, I don't know why the Oilers get ragged on for that more than anyone else.

2) Vegas players thought it was pretty close. Marchessault has stated that the Oilers were the best team that they played and they were lucky to have beaten them.

3) Nearly swept means nothing. They almost completed the reverse sweep, which also means nothing. Any way you slice it, losing in game seven isn't getting "taken behind the shed."

 

[Rubi]

UFA he gets 7x$16M easily.

It’s a fair market contract, comparable to what he would have gotten on the open market

7 x 16 = 112
8 x 14 = 112

So Drai got market value. Market value doesn't seem to be to me the same as team friendly.
Not saying he's not worth it.. he is. I just think a lot of people were fooling themselves when they thought he would sign with the Oilers for anything less than market value.
McDavid is now going to get $16m x 8.... maybe even more.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Draisaitl is a power forward / elite sniper, power forwards usually start declining after 30 whereas smaller skilled players seem to excel in their later years a bit more.

I don't think that's accurate. Usually it's the physical bruising powerforwards (Lucic, Wilson, etc.) who see a decline quickly as they enter their early 30's. Draisaitl doesn't necessarily initiate a bunch of contact, he just uses his size/strength in a puck protection capacity.

I'd say he'd age more similar to a Joe Thornton -- another guy who used his size/strength to dominate possession, but didn't really add wear and tear on his body by going around throwing thunderous hits every night. Thornton was around a point per game guy as late as I believe age 36 or 37.