[CaptainCrunch]

Well when you combine it with Draisatl probably getting about 7 to 7.5. from his 925k salary cap hit this year.

This year they're probably going to add 6.5 for Draisaitl, and they have a few incidental RFA's Kassian will get a pretty good raise, lets probably move him up by (1.2) Khari will probably get a small raise so add .5)

They're going to probably trade or not resign Russell (3.1) Gryba (1 mill) Hendricks at (1.8 million) and Ferrence will come off of the books (3.25) and Pitlick will probably be gone (.75) so they'll lose about 9.75 million, but they'll still need to replace 2 blueliners and a forward, so let say they do that with minimum wage prospects so add about what 3 million. So that's what 12.95 million

so I think the Oilers have right now about 4 million dollars in cap space and the cap is going to be flat, so they'll be down to close to a million in cap space the next year..

Then

McDavid is a .985 cap hit right now, lets say for arguments sake that he takes a home town discount to 11 million. so add $10 million. They'll need to sign Letestu and Caguillia (SP) so add lets say another 2 million. They have to either trade or resign Davidson and Benning. Lets be generous and add 2 million. Oh and do they resign Maroon who if he stays productive is going to go to 4 mill so add 2.5. So we're adding 16.5 We also need to resign Nurse, so lets say that he goes to 3 mill so now we're going to add 2.2 million. And whether they decide to resign LB as a backup or pursue something else we'll just ignore that hit for now. So they have 18.7 million to their payroll and it dosen't matter how much their cap goes up.

So you would literally have to trade RNH Eberle and Lucic for nothing and take back no salary to survive.