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Originally Posted by Macho0978
I'm hoping for a buy out. Neal or Koskinen would be nice. Koskinen buyout goes to 23/24 season and only saves them 2 mil this season. Neal buyout is on this books until Leon contract is up. I also expect they buyout to blow it on someone else. They won't be getting a good ufa so that means trade. They don't have very many good prospects or picks either so if they want someone good their first and Bouchard would have to be in play.
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I would highly doubt they'd buy out Koskinen. He had a good regular season and bailed out the Oilers a lot, its not his fault that he developed PTSD from all the pucks flying at him during epic this guy scored style moments. Plus they're losing Smith and if they drop Koskinen what do they have in the chute?
Skinner was supposed to be the next big thing, but he barely looks like an AHL goalie and is far from ready. I guess they could go out and sign a free agent starter at 5 mil but then you need to add on Koskinens buy out and that's an expensive proposition.
As for Neal and the 20 goal thing. They're welcome to keep him, he can't be trusted 5v5 at all. Eventually the jerk that he is, well its going to explode in that dressing room.
He had a 4 goal game in October, and 2 goals the game before it. So out side of those two games he scored 13 goals, but wait he had a 3 goal game in December.. 12 of his goals were on the powerplay. So he had 7 5v5 goals and he was minus 20. Some players have warts. James Neal is a massive puss filled boil of 5v5 ineptness.
And a team that close to the cap really can't spend 6 million dollars a year to be a pp winger, that's just stupid spending. Like really dumb.
Again though, I doubt the Oilers buy them out, a team with almost 10% of its cap space spent in dead space is dead in the water.