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If Evan Bouchard and his agent are asking $10 Million on a long term deal would the Oilers consider trading him?

If so, who would be a good fit and what would the return be?

Evan Bouchard: 25, RHD, $3.9 Million AAV pending RFA

I've also read offer sheets could be brewing here as well.
 
Oilers will extend McDavid first on July 1 and then see if Bouchard at 10M per would be a good fit for the team long term.
 
Spawn said:
If Evan Bouchard is asking for $10m the Oilers sign the deal without problems.
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Other than the lack of cap space and very few players without trade protection.

These would be the minimum cap commitments of Bouchard signs for 10m

Forwards (54,450,000)
  1. Draisaitl - 14m, Full NMC
  2. McDavid - 12.5m Full NMC
  3. Hyman - 5.5m Full NMC
  4. Kane - 5.125 M-NTC (15 team no-trade)
  5. Nugent-Hopkins - 5.125m Full NMC
  6. Arvidsson - 4m Full NMC
  7. Henrique - 3m Full NMC
  8. Janmark - 1.45m M-NTC (10 team no-trade)
  9. Tomasek - 1.2m
  10. Podkolzin - 1m
  11. __________ - >/= 0.775m
  12. __________ - >/= 0.775m
Defensemen (32,950,000)
  1. Bouchard - 10m
  2. Nurse - 9.5m Full NMC
  3. Ekholm - 6m
  4. Walman - 3.4m
  5. Kulak - 2.75m
  6. Emberson - 1.3m
Goaltenders (3,600,000)
  1. Skinner - 2.6m
  2. Pickard - 1m
Total: 91,000,000 (4.5m in space)

Call me crazy but 91m committed to a 20-man roster is a problem because it eliminates any chance of off-season improvement.

Edit: rephrased last sentence after was pointed out to me I used this years cap number
 
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Draiskull said:
I dont think Bouchard is making a dollar more than 10M per.
This number has been leaked before and he will likely get just that.
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Do you have a link?

I'm just asking because the last I saw that was Seravalli and that was last year. Projections I've seen from places like EvolvingHockey and AFP have an AAV closer to 11 than 10. That's also the percentage of the cap comp of Nurse, which makes sense from an internal hierarchy, league-wide value and just being better than Nurse was at the same point in time. I also think he could get more on the open market in a year
 
MrLunatik said:
Other than the lack of cap space and very few players without trade protection.

These would be the minimum cap commitments of Bouchard signs for 10m

Forwards (54,450,000)
  1. Draisaitl - 14m, Full NMC
  2. McDavid - 12.5m Full NMC
  3. Hyman - 5.5m Full NMC
  4. Kane - 5.125 M-NTC (15 team no-trade)
  5. Nugent-Hopkins - 5.125m Full NMC
  6. Arvidsson - 4m Full NMC
  7. Henrique - 3m Full NMC
  8. Janmark - 1.45m M-NTC (10 team no-trade)
  9. Tomasek - 1.2m
  10. Podkolzin - 1m
  11. __________ - >/= 0.775m
  12. __________ - >/= 0.775m
Defensemen (32,950,000)
  1. Bouchard - 10m
  2. Nurse - 9.5m Full NMC
  3. Ekholm - 6m
  4. Walman - 3.4m
  5. Kulak - 2.75m
  6. Emberson - 1.3m
Goaltenders (3,600,000)
  1. Skinner - 2.6m
  2. Pickard - 1m
Total: 91,000,000 (over by 3m)

Call me crazy but 3m over on a 20-man roster is a problem. It's absolutely insane that only 8/17 players don't have any trade protection and only 2 of them make over 3m
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I think guys like Kane, arvidsson, Henrique get replaced internally by guys like Savoie and Phelp.
 
You keep Bouchard, end of story.

Every playoffs he plays like a top 5 D in the league and people still doubt him.

They'll only need to move or buy out one of Kane, Arvidsson, or Henrique to make this work. I don't think they'll have to, though. Kane is having a good playoffs and will have trade value and both Arvidsson and Henrique have cheap buyouts if it comes to that.

Should be light work.
 
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FriendlyGhost92 said:
Yeah it's not ideal but neither is letting your PPG defenseman go.
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The RD market is an absolute tire fire. There's nothing out there for replacements. They'd have to go the trade route.

If they did trade Bouchard for bits and pieces and then had to use those bits and pieces to trade for a D that can do 80% of what Bouchard does, they're trading from a place of extreme weakness. Is it worth the downgrade to save a couple million bucks and have a 2nd and a meh prospect left over from the deal? I don't think it is.
 
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