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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Sure. But at $5.125M?
He's a $3M player now (at best). So for a cap-strapped team like EDM, he is a liability that needs to be moved. And the only teams that would take him are teams that would do so as a cap dump. So the Oilers will either have to pay him $5.125M (which they can't), or trade him with a sweetener (which they are woefully short of), or buy him out.
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Or ltir shenanigans. I believe they're already setting this up through the media. First it was sports hernia. Now they're saying hip issue. He'll be out until playoffs.