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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
See this is funny from both angles.
Canucks inexplicably trade an asset for a proven toxic human who makes too much money and will add yet another bizarre dimension to their already chaotic locker room. Utterly perplexing from their end.
Oilers free up cap space, but they also lose one of their only productive secondary forwards who is actually tailored to playoff hockey (even if he takes way too many stupid penalties). They'll probably end up bringing in someone even worse to replace him.
Rejoice!
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Fair enough. The Oilers do lose their 5th best scoring forward from the playoffs. The other 3 useful second scorers were 33 year old Hyman, 40 year old Perry, and 32 year old Nuge.
There also aren't an excess of surefire #1 goalies, even if the Oilers do have the space. Is the plan now throw money at Lehner and hope for the best?