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 Adam
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| Goose wrote on Mon, 11 July 2022 10:56 |
I don't think the Oilers can pay Brett Kulak $2.5M if the plan is to have him play on the 3rd pair. According to CapFriendly, the 128th defenceman in the league right now makes $1.5M. Maybe you can get away with it for a year if the plan is to have Broberg play a regular role and potentially play above Kulak.
Bouchard is going to be due a significant raise (and I think it would be a mistake to bridge him, they should be working on a long-term deal right now). So unless there is a plan to move Barrie before the start of next year, the Oilers would have 5 defencemen making top 4 money (and with Nurse's deal it's not like it's just a bunch of middle tier salaries).
Chychrun has been reportedly available for a while. I saw rumors over the weekend that Provorov might be available from Philly. If the Oilers don't think that Kulak is a top-4 defenceman, I'd rather they kick the tires on guys like that (with some retention on Provorov), and see if they can't put together a package centering on one of the Oilers defence prospects.
Unrelated, saw this on twitter the other day:
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Mentions are absolutely full of this. Apparently draft picks can't be traded for good players any more.
Ken Holland turned:
2025 2nd
2024 3rd
2023 4th
2022 4th, 3rd, 2nd
2021 2nd 3rd 5th
2020 2nd 4th
... into air. All he has to show for all those picks is James Neal buyout.
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To be fair, I think you also have to include Zack Kassian's cap space as part of the return there, but the point remains. Ken Holland isn't actually good at trades, which means managing the cap and making savvy signings becomes extremely important.
I think I could get behind giving a bit of a bigger salary number to Kulak in the short term, because we'll have guys like Broberg at a lower amount during that period, but that's where I struggle with giving a long-term deal. If he's going to spend 75+% of the contract on the third pairing, it's a lot to spend. I think the extra million spent here and there on depth guys is the true "death by 1000 cuts" that the Oilers have suffered over the last several years. Your 3rd and 4th lines and 3rd d-pairing really should be made up of young guys on entry deals and bargain players who contribute more than their salary cap hit. If you have a lot of guys making 2, 3, 4 million back there, then you are challenged to properly flesh out the top half of your roster.
The team is in a unique situation where suddenly a whole lot of mistakes have disappeared. The team has only one or two clear overpays in the bottom half of the roster: Warren Foegele for sure, and debatably Tyson Barrie, although he's more of a specialist so maybe you can wrap your head around that one. Derek Ryan and Devin Shore are the only other remaining bottom six forward under contract and neither is a problematic number. Cody Ceci's contract may be too high in a year or two, but for now, he's playing a top-4 role so it's not terrible. If the Oilers are smart about their money here, then we have enough that we can ice a really competitive team and have room to add. The key is being smart though - so if Kulak wants too much for too long and you see him as a third pairing guy? Then we may need to re-focus and find a better value contract in free agency.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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