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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
The way it's going they'll to have to sever a limb they really don't want to in order to fit the guys they need under the cap.
The math on Douchard and McTantrum's raises simply doesn't compute with the current cap structure.
But fear not, Bowman's already run a masterclass under pressure up there.
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The solution is probably to pay the crazy high price to trade Nurse. I really don’t know what that would cost the oilers because I don’t think any player with that bad of a contract has been traded in a long time. I would think it would cost two first round picks at least. The timing would likely work that they need to do that trade next summer or, at the very latest, the following summer (2026). If they did that… it’s no first round picks in 2025 (already traded for the last pick of first round in 2024), 2026 and 2027.
That means nothing in the system from those drafts and no quality cost-controlled young players coming to support McDavid/Draisaitl in 2027, 2028 and 2029. Window officially closed in that scenario IMO. The oilers don’t really develop much quality outside of high first round picks so they likely won’t have anything from the later rounds turn into anything helpful to them. The trend of veteran players taking a discount this year to sign with the oilers for a season will not continue once they miss some playoffs or are bounced early in the playoffs.