Potentials scenarios:
Scenario 1. Oilers don’t match. Lose good young player(s) and the flames trade for the player(s) for pennies on the dollar one year from now after a handshake agreement with St. Louis to do so in exchange for including full retention on a Coleman trade at the TDL this season.
Scenario 2. Oilers match. Flames weaponize their cap space to make room for one of NY, Vegas, Florida, LA or Chicago to sign Draisaitl in free agency. Oilers can’t afford to keep him because they kept Broberg/Holloway. Oilers lose McDavid the following year because Draisaitl leaves.
Either way… the flames afterwards:
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