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Originally Posted by InternationalVillager
Yeah- this clears the way for Oilers to give $11M to Bouchard and round out the bottom of their roster.
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Doesn't even cover the Frederic raise and whatever increase they'll have to pay for an improvement on Skinner. After this move, they have $17M in cap space, without including Frederic's new contract since its not official yet. So take off $3.5M for $13.5M remaining.
They move Skinner to make room for a new #1 goalie. Gives them $2.6M back for $16.1M cap space but they need a 1G. Gibson's name has been brought up a lot, let's use his salary at 50% retained, or $3.2M. That's back down to $12.9M.
Perry and Bouchard will be re-signed. Does that eat up the rest of the cap? Probably close to, and leaves them with this....
Hyman - McDavid - Perry
Nuge - Draisatl - Arvidsson
Podkolzin - Frederic - Tomasek (29 years 0 NHL games)
Janmark - Henrique - Jones (2P in 26GP last season)
???
Ekholm - Bouchard
Nurse - Emberson
Kulak - Stecher
Walman
Gibson
Pickard
The Oilers are cooked next season and this attempt to open cap space is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.