It’s so funny to see that Nurse contract continually crushing the oilers cap structure. The cost to trade him would be enormous and would maybe solve their problems for the next year or two but ruin them for the rest of the potential McDrai years if they re-sign because the oilers would have even less young, cost-controlled players coming into the line up that can contribute. And they will need that desperately if McDavid, Draisaitl and Bouchard re-sign and take up $40 million in cap space.
So trading Nurse will make it so they can keep Draisaitl+McDavid+Broberg… but completely drains their already depleted prospect/pick cupboard which they need for any kind of second swing at contending during the next 8 years. Not trading Nurse keeps them in cap hell every year and it only gets worse if they try to re-sign McDavid/Draisatil/Bouchard.
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