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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I am not doubting you CC, but can you post a source? I have trouble now capgeek is gone.
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I'm looking at NHLnumbers.com, they were within 4 million bucks of the cap this year with only Roy and Schultz and Maricin dropping off (UFA, RFA, RFA). The cap isn't going up much next year. (4 million bucks I think at best)
so the Oilers can't go out and sign a top pairing for 5 or 6 million bucks and a top goaltender for 4 or 5 million bucks unless they dump some salaries.
And nobody is going to help them out with guys like Nikitin, or Ference or anyone else that's a waste of salary space.
I also think that RFA offer sheets aren't going to work for the Oilers as the cost of those contracts has to be high enough for the team to not want to match.
Since Colorado is such a blueline poor team it would cost a lot to pry a guy like Barrie out of there.