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Originally Posted by Ashasx
If the cap doesn't keep going up, the best chance for the Oilers to win the Cup is probably next season.
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That's been clear since the day McDavid was drafted IMO - really the shot was probably last season when they had the league MVP and another ppg center on their ELCs. They needed to go all in while him, Draisaitl, & Nurse were on their ELCs, it's why a lot of the smarter members of that fanbase were mad when Chiarelli didn't try to add more at the deadline.
Looking at their contract situations it's not that pretty. Really the only "bad" cap they have expiring that they don't have to replace will be Fayne/Pouliot ($7.625M) and that doesn't even cover just the raises for McDavid/Draisaitl.
2017 Offseason:
Draisaitl - RFA
2018 Offseason:
RFAs
-McDavid
-Strome
-Caggiula
-Slepyshev
-Benning
-Nurse
UFAs
-Letestu
-Maroon
-Fayne
2019 Offseason
RFAs
-Puljujarvi
-Kharia
UFAs
-Talbot
-Pouliot
They really need Yamamoto, Puljujarvi, & Benson to at least become decent NHLers to be able to make this work. Plus they probably have to try to shed at least one of RNH, Lucic, Sekera, or Russells contracts at some point.