RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 02 July 2019 08:02

Magnum wrote on Mon, 01 July 2019 18:35 Ragnarok73 wrote on Mon, 01 July 2019 16:59 So far, the Oil just seemed to have done a whole lot of absolutely nothing. Granted, what else could we expect with the @$@#hole that Chia left the team in cap-wise? Wish we had a veteran defence man with a history of being elite, with some upside. I do too except I don't want the Oilers having to pay that guy 5.5 mill for the next 2 seasons. I'd also like to know he will actually be ready to go for the start of the season vs potentially getting hurt for the 3rd year in a row and I would like to know I can count on him for good mins vs crossing my fingers.

If he costs you more than $3MM, you're paying the same as what you were paying Sekera, since we're on the hook for $2.5MM of cap space with Sekera this year.

There's not much left in the free agent market who's going to provide an update. Jake Gardiner...and that's about it. And I don't see Gardiner coming cheap or coming to Edmonton. He may have heard from his old teammate Justin Schultz about how Edmonton fans (most knowledgeable in the league ) treat offensive defencemen - and even if he hadn't, he's undoubtedly heard that this team is a tire fire who can't get it together, even when gifted the best player on the planet.

So that leaves trades...but looking at Holland's record, he's not exactly good at making trades. He doesn't make many of them, and there's exceptionally few clear wins when he does make them, so we might be in tough here.

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