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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Yes I said that would be the start. There is so much work to do if they want to keep McDavid and not go into another rebuitld. But a deal where they turn Draisaitl into multiple core pieces is the first step into righting the ship before starting over again.
It may or not work out, but that is the only path I see where someone competent could try and save the current team.
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IMO its more fluid than this...here is the depth chart. It's honestly not that bad. It has holes, but it's not garbage. If filled in with a mediocre standard (and lets face it, thats probably the most we can expect from the oilers), the oilers have a mediocre playoff team and with McDavid on a playoff team...well they have an outside chance to go on a decent playoff run over the next six years.
Hopkins-McDavid-XXXX
XXXX-Draisaitl-XXXX
XXXXX-Yamamoto-Pulujarvi
Khaira-Brodziak-Chiasson
Nurse-Larsson
Klefbom-Sekera
Russell-Bouchard
The problem is that it's hard to plug the holes because of the dead-weight. But $7m of deadweight comes off after this year, $7m after next year and then there will be a compliance buyout for Lucic as well, so that gives a total of $20m for cap space. Over two years, you probably get another $6m in cap space. Assuming a back-up costs $1.5 and a third liner is $3.5...they have $21m for three top six players and a starting goalie
Deadweight
Lucic - 6.00 x 4
Spooner 3.1 x 1
Manning 2.25 x 1
Benning 1.90 x 1
Talbot: 4.5 x 0
Koskinen: 2.5 x 0
So if the Oilers get a competent GM, they could be on their way to mediocrity for the 2020-2021 season