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Goose Messages: 1098
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Location: Vancouver
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mightyreasoner wrote on Fri, 06 August 2021 13:47 | Nurse has always been a very hard negotiator and he held all the cards in these negotiations. They Oilers are paper thin on defense, and losing Nurse would be a huge blow. He knew it and they knew it, and he leveraged that into a HUGE payday.
In some ways it's hard to look back on the Shea Theodore deal and not wish the Oilers had gone long then at that cap hit; they had locked themselves out of that option at the time with bad contracts and buyouts. They ended up paying for that choice later, and Nurse kept banking on this contract being his big payday. He made the right choice.
It's hard to argue that Seth Jones is a better defenseman than Darnell Nurse the past few seasons, so the market obviously shifted (the irony is the Oilers role in that shift, taking on Keith and opening the door for Chicago to make the Seth Jones signing). It's hard to imagine that this contract doesn't become an issue for the Oilers down the road, or that Nurse is able to live up to it, but at the same time, given the events of the past few weeks, it felt inevitable.
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Ya, I agree on it feeling inevitable. Outside of Makar, who's 22, and Pelech who is at a much lower cap hit, I don't think that any of the defencemen signed to long-term deals this year are going to be able to live up to those contracts. This team is going to be feeling the repercussions of Klefbom's injury for a long time.
Oilers Goal Differential
17/18: 234 GF / 263 GA (-29)
18/19: 232 GF / 274 GA (-42)
19/20 (82 game pace): 257 GF / 254 GA (+3) in 64 games
2021 (82 game pace):269 GF / 235 GA (+34) after 38 games
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