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

[LemonSauceD]

14M Draisaitl
Bouchard will get 10-12M
McDavid 16M+
Nurse 9.5M

Lol at least $50-55M on 4 players.

 

[SI90]

Even $14mil feels like a discount honestly.

 

[TheUnusedCrayon]

Ill take wild guess now and say mcdavid signs for 8 x 15 after seeing this deal...

Not bad if cap keeps rising

My guess will be 16+. The window will be very difficult to pull off with some albatross contracts on the book in Nurse and eventually Bouchard (unless he really projects upward defensively).

 

[Manhattan]

Can they remain competitive when 3 players will most likely take 40million of cap space when McDavid and Bouchard re-signs?

Darnell Nurse entered the chat…

 

[BleedBlue14]

When McDavid signs for 15 AAV and Bouchard 12, how exactly are they going to fill out their depth?

 

[KrisLetAngry]

They always said Drai and McDavid will take up about 30 mill combined… looking like it could end up like that next offseason when McDavid signs his next deal

Crushes the hopes and dreams of every other team hoping to get one at ufa now.

I wouldn't be surprised if teams would have lined up 15 Or 16 for Draisaitl a year.

Cap goes up 5%+ for McDavid and him being worth far more than Draisaitl. Curious what Edmonton ends up paying. 16 or 17 million probably.

A good problem to have though.

 

[Draiskull]

Now pissy Leon will just cash in and float

Sorry, Oilers fans

He still scores 100+pts when floating and we are used to it.

 

[Shane Diesel]

And people claimed MacKinnon at $12.6 million wasn't a discount.

 

[LOFIN]

14 is a steal.

It's not a steal in any way. It's fair market value. The equivalent would've been him getting 16M on the open market next summer. Would that have been a steal?

 

[Enga Olly]

good chance this means McDavid resigns for $16m/8 years

 

[macbowes]

$50M on four players is going to be easily doable when you consider the cap is going to be $105M+ when McDavids new deal kicks in.

 

[Draiskull]

When McDavid signs for 15 AAV and Bouchard 12, how exactly are they going to fill out their depth?

hopefully trade Nurse or just trade Bouchard if he wants more than 9M per.

 

[gn2007]

More than MacKinnon lol

 

[le_sean]

It's not a steal in any way. It's fair market value. The equivalent would've been him getting 16M on the open market next summer. Would that have been a steal?

Yes, if you get a player of his calibre for “free” on the open market, it’s a steal regardless of how much you pay.

 

[The Hockey Tonk Man]

Just a cool $112 million.
Not bad.

 

[gn2007]

With the cap moving up mcdavid will get 17m which will be prorated to 14 m contracts.

 

[herzausstein]

Seems like a good deal but unless they can jettison some dead weight contract the team will basically be rolling back the same team year over year with these contract extensions keeping them up against the cap with what they got. Will depend on how Bouchard's contract goes and if any of the remaining ELC type players can step up and produced results.

Either way Draisaitl is a fantastic player and you gotta keep him.

 

[hamzarocks]

A lot of money

If he lives up to this deal he will likely end a top 10-15 player all time

He needs to continue to be a top 3-5 player for the next 5 years which will be a lot to ask for as a 30 year old when he starts the deal

Interested to see how he ages and if he can keep up his incredible prime and playoff production over his career.

Mcdavid likely take 16M x 8

 

[Bouboumaster]

Well, he's a lot of player

For sure, but that's also a lot of dough, for a long ass time

 

[DJJones]

When McDavid signs for 15 AAV and Bouchard 12, how exactly are they going to fill out their depth?

No way McDavid is only getting 15.

If they can go deep again they could probably get some vets signing league minimum deals. Gotta pray to god Hyman doesn't get old.

 

[madmike77]

When McDavid signs for 15 AAV and Bouchard 12, how exactly are they going to fill out their depth?

Cheap vets chasing Cups. That'll work for at least another 4-5 years while McD and Drai are in their primes.

They'll also need to start keeping their picks and drafting better. Having roster players on rookie deals is gold.

 

[GrandBison]

14M Draisaitl
Bouchard will get 10-12M
McDavid 16M+
Nurse 9.5M

Lol at least $50-55M on 4 players.

Why give Bouchard 10M? If it's what he wants, then that's the one Edmonton should let go. They'll find good defensemen wanting to play there for a more reasonable price.

 

[pantherbot]

Its fair value, but you can't win in this league with your superstars signed to fair value contracts.

 

[KrisLetAngry]

And people claimed MacKinnon at $12.6 million wasn't a discount.

To be fair the cap went up just over 5% and another 5% expected this year. There Is a 2 year gap in signing.


With this taken in consideration McKinnon at 12.6 is roughly a 13.9 million dollar deal.

 

[LOFIN]

Yes, if you get a player of his calibre for “free” on the open market, it’s a steal regardless of how much you pay.

Well I guess. By this definition, there are no overpaid contracts in this league because there was a team willing to give up said contract, thus a guy like Nick Nurse is absolutely making fair market value because that's what Edmonton decided to give him.