[McG]

With this injury, and Mavi being one of the youngest oilers, the average age goes up!

TSN reporting that as the Oilers have been carrying 12 roster forwards (I don’t know and I don’t care enough to confirm if true or not), they will need to call up from shelbyville south.

Two things amuse me about this.

1) if they don’t LTIR Mavi, they only have $53k under the cap or will have to pay kane’s cap space to the call up. This affects the multi million contract that we have been told is coming in at the deadline. Placing Mavi on LTIR obviously presents a number of problems including automatically missing a number of games. Maybe the oilers can paper up and paper down players to spend the $53k, but think about that player. They are on and off the nhl salary, basically breaking the spirit of calling players up on two way contracts. Not a great look for the organization.

2) they can ignore having 11 forwards and selectively double shift say…pissy. Or try to roll with 4 lines and spread ice time…except that this is a team of wrinklies and injuries are sure to follow such an old team.

I did read that Mavi has flown in his own medical team to Edmonton who will work with the Oilers medical team.