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Originally Posted by Vinny01
If they keep MacT and Lowe then no worries but they will have options to address these needs this summer. Perhaps they sign Cody Franson or Erhoff? A competent GM likely also shakes the core up by trading Hall or Eberle
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It will be interesting to see where the cap space comes for guys like that considering both those guys are going to be around $6m cap hits and they aren't trading the big 4. Maybe they trade Pouliot, Ference, Nikatin and Purcell in cap dumps but those guys are all zero trade value guys except Pouliot. Trading those guys, as mediocre as they are, hurts because their depth is so bad with no one good obviously ready to take their places on cheaper deals.
Sadly for the oilers, this is where their drafting incompetence hurts them. No young trade assets outside of people they won't trade and no good young players available to step into depth roles. I honestly think their playoff drought will extend at least two more years. It's entirely possible they don't make the playoffs in any of McDavid's ELC years. They will push that streak of their's to 11 or 12 years IMO before they can fully turn it around, and that's giving them the benefit of the doubt. Their system is just that terrible at the moment. It took us 5 years to see our revamped approach to drafting bear fruit, I don't see why Edmonton would be different, assuming it improves at all.