He's got a full no move, and if he has decided to leave he would be playing it exactly like he is right now and keeping it under wraps so the yokels up there don't pull him to pieces. No way he's going to move to another team in a trade and devastate his new team's competitiveness. He will want to go there as a UFA and join the strongest team possible if he's leaving.
And with the cap going up almost 10 mil next year a lot of teams will be able to find a way to fit him in.
I think if he's not signed to an extension by the start of the season he walks unless the oilers have one of those two new young forwards absolutely explode changing how he sees the future there. It makes sense for him to chew it over all summer but there's no other rationale as to why he would wait beyond the start of the season.
Right now they look like a tired old team with very little youth and one or two cuts at the cup left. Never mind the additional money he would make in endorsements playing somewhere like LA.
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