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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
It would honestly be a smart signing for the Oilers. A Nurse / Hamilton pairing would be pretty good. Then Klefbom with whoever of Larsson or Barrie comes back, I guess, or Ethan Bear if neither of them do. Then you've got Broberg and Bouchard learning the ropes in limited minutes with Russell or whatever other depth veteran you might sign to be the 7th D.
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Oilers are at $60M with 31 contracts signed. They need to extend or replace Smith, RNH, Barrie, Larsson, Chiasson, Kulikov, plus the other flotsam. Yamamoto is an RFS, as is Kahun. They have to think about Nurse the following year (and Bear), though they will get out of Koskinen then. They did manage to sign Russel for cheap for next year. If Klefbom is back, things get tighter.
If Hamilton is looking for $8.8M like Pietrangelo, that's basically taking up the salaries of both Barrie and Larsson this year. They'd better hope that Bouchard can take a regular shift. Funny though - Hamilton, Bouchard, Bear, Larsson, Barrie are all RD, so somethings gotta give there.
Yammy Hockey is gonna want $3M or so, I bet. and they still need a 2-3 C if RNH goes away. Also a 4C because Ennis and Turris are both UFAs. and a decent goalie will cost $4-5M.