Edmonton is No Good XII: "I Dunno.. it's Just Not Good."

[getbak]

Originally Posted by CedarMeter

How much will he be paid a year if Mcdavid takes the same % of the cap as his last contact?

It depends... He signed his current deal in the summer of 2017, but it didn't start until 2018-19.

When he signed it, the cap was $75 million, so his $12.5 cap hit was 16.67% of the cap. When it started, the cap was $79.5 million, so his cap was 15.72% of the cap.

• The cap for 2025-26 is $95.5 million. 16.67% of that is $15.91 million.
• The cap for 2026-27 has already been announced and will be $104 million. 15.72% of that is $16.35 million.
• If he asked for 16.67% of next year's cap, it would be $17.33 million.

Draisaitl's $14 million is the highest cap hit in the NHL this season.

[Fighting Banana Slug]

I can't see it less than $16 mil. Remember the last go round, the fart sniffing media floated the idea of his last deal would be at $15 mil/year, so when it was announced at $12.5 mil it looked like a discount. I am thinking we start hearing rumours of $18-20 mil, and he will sign in the 16.5-17.5 range.

Edit: Much depends on the term, of course.

[albertGQ]

His last contract was never reported as $15M. It was $13.25M

[Tkachukwagon]

Corey Pronman of the Athletic is ranking NHL pipelines for all 32 teams. Looks like the Coilers are locking down 31st spot with virtually no talent in their pipeline:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...rankings-2025/

Edmonton Oilers rank No. 31 in NHL Pipeline Rankings for 2025

The second-to-worst pipeline still has two legit pro prospects in Matthew Savoie and Isaac Howard, who should materially help the Oilers soon. The issue is that after them, there is next to nothing in this farm system.

2024 ranking: 30

2025 NHL Draft grade: C

[Redrum]

Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug

I can't see it less than $16 mil. Remember the last go round, the fart sniffing media floated the idea of his last deal would be at $15 mil/year, so when it was announced at $12.5 mil it looked like a discount. I am thinking we start hearing rumours of $18-20 mil, and he will sign in the 16.5-17.5 range.

Edit: Much depends on the term, of course.

I remember being sure that the 7mill rumor for Nurse was them trying to make people happy with like 6.5, which would've still been a huge overpayment. But then, well...

[CedarMeter]

Originally Posted by Tkachukwagon

Corey Pronman of the Athletic is ranking NHL pipelines for all 32 teams. Looks like the Coilers are locking down 31st spot with virtually no talent in their pipeline:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...rankings-2025/

Que the latest Staples article lambasting this article.

[Calgary4LIfe]

Originally Posted by Tkachukwagon

Corey Pronman of the Athletic is ranking NHL pipelines for all 32 teams. Looks like the Coilers are locking down 31st spot with virtually no talent in their pipeline:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/649...rankings-2025/

I don't really have any issues with Pronman as some people do. I will, however, take great offence at his grade here. The 31st team in the NHL is graded as a C? How? LoL I guess in Pronman's classroom, everyone passes!

[Jiri Hrdina]

I'm going to guess that Pronman puts the Flames at #9.
He isn't as high on some of the Flames prospects, and seems to be more skeptical of smaller guys. And we have to keep in mind this is not a ranking of farm systems, but rather, any player in an organization under 23 years.

So Coronato should be included but not Zary or Wolf or for that matter Jeremie Poirier, or Yan Kuznetzov.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

I wonder how much of his wife's business interests there impact him not leaving soon. She just opened up that bar for snobs and you just know that Edmonton being Edmonton, the minute McDavid leaves town, there will be bricks going through the windows and the business is done. They don't handle their #### well there.

He is almost certainly looking for contract in excess of $100M with the promise of endorsement opportunities at about the same level. The wife of a guy pulling ~$30M / year isn't opening a Bar that will probably net her 100s of thousands / year as a business. She is doing it as a hobby and like all hobbies if you can afford the startup costs (see her husbands salary), then the hobby is portable.

I doubt it weights on their decision much at all.

She is also an interior designer by trade, so her interest in the bar was probably more related setting it up and making it look pretty than running it. At the end of the day she'd probably be happier with a blank piece of paper and a new bar location than running the bar in perpetuity. But that's just speculation.

[Vox]

Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe

I don't really have any issues with Pronman as some people do. I will, however, take great offence at his grade here. The 31st team in the NHL is graded as a C? How? LoL I guess in Pronman's classroom, everyone passes!

That was my immediate reaction as well, but on re-read he was grading their most recent draft as a "C", not the whole pipeline.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

I'm going to guess that Pronman puts the Flames at #9.
He isn't as high on some of the Flames prospects, and seems to be more skeptical of smaller guys. And we have to keep in mind this is not a ranking of farm systems, but rather, any player in an organization under 23 years.

So Coronato should be included but not Zary or Wolf or for that matter Jeremie Poirier, or Yan Kuznetzov.

Maybe. Would not be shocked if he puts them around 14.

[Fighting Banana Slug]

Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug

I can't see it less than $16 mil. Remember the last go round, the fart sniffing media floated the idea of his last deal would be at $15 mil/year, so when it was announced at $12.5 mil it looked like a discount. I am thinking we start hearing rumours of $18-20 mil, and he will sign in the 16.5-17.5 range.

Edit: Much depends on the term, of course.

Originally Posted by albertGQ

His last contract was never reported as $15M. It was $13.25M

Slight exaggeration, as the max was $14.6.