The Habs with all that cap space. But, he will prefer Vegas. Pretty sure, the Oilers will trade him for a king's ransom if he doesn't re-sgn before the trade deadline anyways.
Speculation: Which teams would realistically be able and willing to sign Draisaitl if he didn't sign in Edmonton?
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All the dreaming from fans of teams that finished bottom of the standings last year is kind of funny.
If Draisaitl leaves, it will be for a team that he can win a cup with. He's not going to want to languish at the bottom of the standings while 18 year old prospects mature.
If by some vast misfortune for Edmonton he does hit UFA, there will be 20 teams lined up around the block with max value, max term contracts in their grubby little mitts and a willingness to do what they need to do in order to make it work.
If Draisaitl leaves, it will be for a team that he can win a cup with. He's not going to want to languish at the bottom of the standings while 18 year old prospects mature.
If by some vast misfortune for Edmonton he does hit UFA, there will be 20 teams lined up around the block with max value, max term contracts in their grubby little mitts and a willingness to do what they need to do in order to make it work.
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Draisaitl wants to win as his priority #1. The Oilers are positioned as well as any team to do that right now. He is best friends with McDavid who he calls the best player to ever live. Their fiances are childhood friends and still best of friends to this day. Draisaitl called Katz the best owner in all of pro sports like a month ago. The Oilers have the best player facilities and support in the entire league. The odds of him leaving to me are less than 5%.
The only potential fits that I saw as threats were LA and Boston. LA has completely f***ed up their cap and fumbled their chances at a competitive team in the last two seasons imo. Boston just blew their wad on Lindholm and Big Z.
Boston has cap room next year yes, but they have 61M committed to 11 players without Marchand and Swayman signed. Assumimg 12-16M combined to re-sign those two, that puts Boston at 73-77M with 13 players on the books. Assume the cap goes up to 92M and assume Draisaitl would need 14M to sign that puts the team basically at the cap with 9 players needing to be signed. It would leave the rest of the team very thin.
I expect Draisaitl to sign a juicy lifetime set up contract of 8 years 100m plus with the Oilers.
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If he hits free agency, Minnesota will give it a ride I'm sure. Only issue is Guerin has taken away a lot of his own flexibility by giving certain bottom of the lineup players certain overpayments in AAV and certain NMC's. Don't think we'd be the most attractive option for Draisaitl anyway, but that's not the question of the thread.
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Looking at Puckpedia, at least a 3rd could do it with zero to almost no effort.
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This should be a bigger storyline for the Oilers. Do they:
A. Assuming both say they're willing to stay, sign Drais for $14-15. Sign McDavid for $15-16 and be in cap hell for 8-9 years.
B. Assuming Drais will stay but McDavid is a ? Sign Drais $14-15M and risk McDavid walking the next year and be "stuck" with only Drais.
C. Assuming neither Drais or McDavid give a clear indiciation. Go for it again and let Drais walk for nothing, then give McDavid max the next year and "retool"?
D. Assuming both say they're leaving, trade them both now. Trade Drais this year and McDavid the next?
They're coming off Game 7 so captain obvious says go for it again, but holy hell will it be ugly if they lose for Drais for nothing and dont have a Cup to show for it.
A. Assuming both say they're willing to stay, sign Drais for $14-15. Sign McDavid for $15-16 and be in cap hell for 8-9 years.
B. Assuming Drais will stay but McDavid is a ? Sign Drais $14-15M and risk McDavid walking the next year and be "stuck" with only Drais.
C. Assuming neither Drais or McDavid give a clear indiciation. Go for it again and let Drais walk for nothing, then give McDavid max the next year and "retool"?
D. Assuming both say they're leaving, trade them both now. Trade Drais this year and McDavid the next?
They're coming off Game 7 so captain obvious says go for it again, but holy hell will it be ugly if they lose for Drais for nothing and dont have a Cup to show for it.
Make the playoffs first and then we will talk
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Except a contending team, Drai wouldn't be going to a rebuilding team. Even though Boston signed Lindholm, I think he's a great fit there.
