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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Any list that doesn’t have Nurse is garbage. Glad to see Frederic on there because I am still blown away they gave that guy 8 years. He has to have pictures of Bowman.
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Nurse was honorable mention but they didn't want to bring in too many high salaries to remain cap compliant.
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Moving down the list, I did run into two deals that feel like serious candidates for our roster. The first is Darnell Nurse and his $9.25 million cap hit that continues to throw a wrench into the Oilers’ hopes, while the other is the new Ivan Provorov deal at $8.5 million that felt like a case of the Columbus tax taken to extremes. I think you could make a strong case that Nurse’s deal is a far bigger problem for his current team, given where the Oilers and Blue Jackets each are in the championship cycle. But for our purposes, Provorov has three additional years to worry about on a seven-year deal, so I’ll take him and save a bit of space in the process. Ivan Provorov is our top defenseman. And I’ll pair him with Brady Skjei, whose seven-year, $7 million UFA deal with the Predators already looks awful just one year in.
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