On this Canada Day, the Edmonton Oilers don’t have enough cap room to get to the end of the block. It is the best of times. The organization has such a terrible track record on July 1 free-agent signings this is a dream scenario. The Oilers have $7.4 million in cap space, with Colton Dach and Spencer Stastney in need of contracts. No one will take all of the Darnell Nurse deal, and most teams want to send back a player with money on the books as well. Music!
CURRENT ROSTER (SANS RFAS) (18)
- Goal (1) Tristan Jarry
- Left Defense (3) Mattias Ekholm, Darnell Nurse, Jake Walman
- Right Defense (3) Evan Bouchard, Connor Murphy, Ty Emberson
- Center (4) Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Jason Dickinson, Josh Samanski
- Left Wing (4) Matt Savoie, Vasily Podkolzin, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Mattias Janmark
- Right Wing (3) Zach Hyman, Ike Howard, Trent Frederic
The club will add Dach and Stastney, bringing the roster to 20. Three players (one goalie, a center and a right wing) will need to be added. The current cap will be eaten up by Dach and Stastney. The AFP analytics have Dach at $1.2 million and Stastney at $2.3 million on their next contracts. So, that’s $3.4 million against the current $7.4 million, meaning the Oilers could sign a player at $4 million (and of course you can go over in the offseason).
So, at the outer marker today, Stan Bowman could add Ilya Mikheyev ($3.5 million) or add Fredrik Andersen ($2.8 million). All estimates sourced here. A reminder these are estimates, and some of them are going to be blown out of the water, while others will come in lower.
Why? The late signings will come when the teams have blown the money. The Oilers should wait, as I suggested here, and let the market come to them. Sign no one today, keep the powder dry on a Nurse deal. Even if you return the roster above and add a waiver wire goaltender plus James Hamblin and Quinn Hutson the team will make the playoffs. Plus, Bowman will have some walking around money when the Roslovics of this summer are looking for work in September. Bowman is playing his hand correctly. Seriously.
Today, I’ll be hosting free-agent coverage on Sports 1440 from 10 this morning through 1pm. Guests will include Mark Spector, Tom Gazzola and Jason Gregor. We’ll cover all free agency with (of course) special attention to the Oilers. 10-1 on Sports 1440 and You Tube. Talk soon!
Spent a bunch of time digging into mystery man Eduards Tralmaks, I lost everything I wrote when my phone died..
I’ll post more tomorrow.
However, this guy’s gamegrew exponentially after he moved to the Czech League 3 seasons ago. In his second year he led the League in scoring. He had never led any of his teams in scoring prior to that season and he had 20 more points than #2.
He had spent his 16 to 25 YO seasons in North America, so this guy won’t need any adjustment time. He is very strong, has a massive upper body and can smash the puck and has a deadly one-timer.21 of his 26 AHL goals were 5v5;.
Based on my video viewings, he had close to a dozen goals by deflection, and a large number were from distance be it a one-timer or a shot above the slot. He is a player who battles, Tralmaks is what we were hoping Tomasek would be (minus the Right hand shot).
He isn’t quick, but his top speed is decent. I wonder if he gets any opportunity to be in the Maroon spot. I don’t think they signed him to compete with the bottom 6 guys.
This is a sneaky good signing (low risk, low cost, low expectations). He isn’t Pat Maroon, but….I would be surprised if he turned some heads in camp.
He could be viewed as the Berezkin replacement.
I am intrigued
Also, he kinda looks like Bobby McMann
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Also, the dude is pretty funny
https://youtube.com/shorts/TWPDXjjxDxM?si=zgSlt3x9vuH4_DYW
Big Mukh seems like the kind of Bowman move that often works out for him … young player, high pedigree, had a tough time establishing himself on a rebuilding team, about to passed on the depth chart by newer, shinier prospects, and no longer as valued by his first NHL team.
Hopefully he pops like Podz did.
I love this player add. It’s ideal to have a player ready for when ekholm needs less minutes. Muk could be that guy in the medium term(a few years).
Shea looks to be that guy right now. Factor in Walmans health both may be playing solid 2nd pair minutes soon.
I wonder if bowman will weaponize the oilers cap space.
John Carlson spurns Carolina for Tampa, 2 x 8.5MM.
Shout out to some ex-Oilers getting the bag over the past few days:
Skinner 3.75 x 2 years
Arvidsson 5 x 2 years
Kulak 4.5 x 5 years
Roslovic 4 x 2 years
And … unbelievably Washington ponied up 4.2 x 4 years to old pal Vinny Desharnais! Happy for guy, but glad that we’re not the ones overpaying him (by comparison, the Jets signed Mario Ferraro for 4 x 3 years)
The Broad Street Bullies are now running the Eastern Conference. You have to fight fire with fire. The Canucks could have had a few Cups but in one moment they allowed their leader Sedin to look silly. They were never the same after that incident and now they’re another 5 years away from being relevant.
Very happy especially for Kulak, who took a discount his last contract in Edmonton. Doubles his career earnings from the 20M to date. Im glad we didn’t sign it but so happy he got it.
And Vinny who didn’t play an NHL game until 27ish and quadruples his career earnings from the 5M to date. Hes already 30 so this was a massive contract for him. I remember when he was first called up and he was so humble and ecstatic to just be playing a game.
I have no idea what vegas did at end there.
11 contracts signed.
Lavoie only non UFA
Most 1 year deals
Most basically some age journeyman not quite vet.
Another head scratcher … anyone know why Chicago gave Cole Smith 3 million x 3 years?
Also … what has Tyson Foerster done to earn 7.1 million x 8 years? Can’t wait to see what Michkov is going to cost the Flyers to extend.
Washington has just under 5.4 million of cap space left. Ovie must be calling it quits.
And finally … Toronto … WTH?
Their self-proclaimed analytics GM just signed contracts worth a combined 20 million in AAV for the next 2 seasons, including 7 million x 3 years for 37 year old goalie Bob, and then traded the young goalie they’ve been grooming in the AHL, along with more picks out the door for a declining Nick Paul, while sending out Nick Robertson, a young forward that they’ve been grooming for years for a 4th round pick.
Not a single one of the players that they acquired today is a legit top 6 forward, top 4 D, or elite starting goalie.
Not only did they gamble big dollars on goalie Bob, but Chayka is also fresh off signing one year wonder Darren Raddysh to a lavish 8.5 million x 8 years.
It’s July first and they’re almost completely out of cap space.
That was pretty mid.
Ha. Yeah it’s like he just told treveling to “hold my beer”
Yeah that 7.1 caught me off guard
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48m
The #VegasBorn signed Olofsson for $1,638,330. Why?
To optimize their LTIR with Pietrangelo on season ending LTIR, they’ll need to submit an opening roster $8.80M over the cap.
If Connelly & Holtz (who also have unique cap hit #’s) are on the roster, they are $7,797,850 over the cap. That means if they add another player for $1,002,150, they’ll completely optimize their use of Pietrangelo on LTIR
It’s just a stack of guys
Connor Ingram got shut out in EDM and OTT. The Sens re-signed Ersson to fill the backup position and the Oilers got Andersen and Levi.
I think Ingram might be taking his talents to South Beach. Behind Jakob Markstrom, there is cobwebs and rookies.
Unless Cam Talbot grabs that last chair…
Bill Zito might be the General Manager but today’s transactions heightens my suspicions that Sunny Metha was the true brains behind the Cup winning teams in Florida.
Ingram agent might of pulled a Maroon.
The Panthers traded for Akira Schmid a few says ago, he’s probably their backup
Howard, Statsney, Janmark, 2028 1st
Marchenko
so of course i immediately googled this to see if it happened
LOL my bad 🤣
Why not I need to believe. I remember we received a 24 year-old Rat in Kenny Linesman for Risto Siltanen after a career year.
So the day started with the worry of Nurse being traded with salary retention and a bad contract coming back and ended with him being traded for what, 5 players?
Filling a bunch of holes in the roster without creating new ones?
I have this weird feeling, I can’t describe it.
There must be a German word for preparing to eat a shit sandwich but end up serving it to a division rival and getting a 4 course steak dinner back.
Well, there is a German term called Schadenfreude.
In your specific case, may I suggest Scheißefeede*?
*My German is, how you say, inelegant.
I dunno, i hear it was pretty mid.
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL
Today was mega.
It was the day I wish we had on July 1 2015.
Will it be too late? Maybe.
But it is a new day in Edmonton.
My heart is full.
The Trouba and Bobrovsky contracts are so bad. Free agency strikes again. Bowman had a good day.
I do not understand why are people celebrating Stan’s July 1st? It was pretty mid.
The good thing is Anaheim gutted their defense. Vegas is taking a gap year to reset their roster. LA is older than dirt. Vancouver and Calgary are rebuilding.
So all the Oilers have to worry about is San Jose, and the wild card crossover team from the central to get out of the division.
The Nurse trade was mid?
Nurse with no retention is excellent.
Reading the athletic, Grier is getting panned for the Nurse trade, one of the biggest moves on the day. We replaced him with a solid 2/3 LD getting paid commensurate to his place on the roster, with a good chance to outperform his contract. Goaltending bets were reasonable, should provide league-average performance with some potential to be even better if Levi progresses, for less than 2M against the cap. ON really liked the Joseph add, citing his performance as 2nd line value based on his defensive work while being paid league minimum (albeit I know very little about him otherwise).
And we are set to start the season with a 23 man roster, basically for the first time since the pandemic, and with approx 5M in cap space.
This tracks because you also think that Bouchard is bad.
That SJ defense shouldn’t scare anyone. They will give up a lot of goals.
I get what you’re saying … the Oilers didn’t add a top 6 forward, top 4 D or elite starting goalie.
That said, they already had 5 of 6 top 6 forward positions filled for next season (McDavid, Draisaitl, Hyman, Savoie, Podkolzin) … I really think they need to give Howard up to the TDL next season to see if his college and AHL scoring prowess can translate to the NHL. For that to happen, he needs to play in the top 6.
The middle 6 guys are all savvy vets – RNH, Davidson, Kapanen
There is an interesting mix of players for the bottom 6 – Frederic, Joseph, Dach, Samanski … I wouldn’t mind if they brought Lazar back.
They were already 4 for 4 on top 4 D – Bouchard, Ekholm, Walman, Murphy; Shea is really good cover for Walman getting injured, and Shakir and Emberson are pretty good options for 6th and 7th defensemen.
In goal, they’ve already invested in Jarry … he was always going to get a chance to prove that he could re-establish himself as a legit #1.
I’ve wanted Levi for a long time … the Athletic had him ranked #7 last season on their drafted NHL prospect goalie list, and Daily Faceoff had him ranked 11th … he was ahead of Wallstedt and Dobes on both lists, and ahead of Cossa on Wheeler’s list … Cossa went for a first round pick … we got Levi for a 3rd round pick.
Then out of nowhere they got Freddy Andersen … if he makes all of his bonuses, he’s still only going to be paid a hair more than Jack Campbell is this season! He can take his time and get healthy, and be ready for another playoff run … and we won’t have to spend assets on upgrading our goaltending at the TDL this year.
Lastly – everyone, everywhere thought that the Oilers were (a) going to have to attach a first round pick, and/or (b) going to have to retain or take back a bad contract in order to offload Nurse, and (c) that his NMC would be an impediment to getting the best possible deal done. The Nurse trade defied all of those prognostications from the talking heads, and the keyboard warriors.
Instead, the Oilers will be going into next season with around 5 million in cap space!
I’m still not a fan of some of his previous work, but today Stan Bowman had a pretty good day.
I’m good with it. No glarimg holes to fill and cash in hand.
Even did the 3 goalies which i was praying they’d start as.
Well put good sir
because essentially every move was a positive.
I would suggest that if they had a better July 1 than all those teams listed then, well, that’s not mid.
how are we to answer your first question? You tell us!
Can you elaborate on what exactly you think would be more than “mid”? What else could have been done? But I suspect your answer will be specious as it seems there is no move that will be satisfactory. They got out of a large contract in Nurse, got a palatable return, created all important cap space to “weaponize”, signed some interesting players, took steps to address goaltending and they have made an admittedly controversial but potentially important coaching change. The angst seems disproportionate.
Hypothetical question for you smart people.
If the Oilers decide to send Jarry to the AHL and he doesn’t want to ride the bus, could they mutually agree to void his contract?
Yes, they could but that’s pretty unlikely because it had to be mutual. If Jarry decides not to report, the team can suspend him but can’t terminate. Jarry has 10 Million reasons to not go that route though.
I don’t see a world where a goaleur struggling to stay in the league (?) agrees to tear up ten million in guaranteed income.
Why would somone downvot a question? 🤣 🤣 🤣
Anyways, I in no way think it’s plausible, but on the other hand, being a prideful athlete that’s already banked 20+ million in his career, when tasked with the idea of riding a bus in and out of Bakersfield and is used to first class flights, charters and 5 star hotels might be inclined to bet on himself, make comeback with an eye towards signing another potential multi-million contract instead of throwing away two years in the minors.
His way back to the NHL would be by playing well in the AHL, no?
Indeed, I totally agree… was just spitballing a potential scenario that could happen in an alternate universe. Lol
Shea was 14th in 5v5 points this year. Pretty good company in the top 20!
Zach Werenski
Evan Bouchard
Lane Hutson
Rasmus Dahlin
Cale Makar
Jakob Chychrun
Sam Malinski
Quinn Hughes
Noah Dobson
Brent Burns
Josh Morrissey
John Carlson
Mattias Ekholm
Ryan Shea
Erik Karlsson
Darren Raddysh
Rasmus Andersson
Mattias Samuelsson
Brock Faber
Charlie McAvoy
Bowen Byram
Oilers and Avs the only teams with 3 in the top 20.
With an AAV of 4M. I’m pretty ecstatc about this bet.
Jarry-Anderson will both take turns with a pulled hamstring. Booooook it………..
That could lead to my best case scenario:
1) Levi gets an opportunity and steps up and becomes a legitimate number 1.
2) Whichever goalie isn’t injured plays well as a backup and the other is on LTIR freeing up space
Anderson is almost 37 has hard miles on him he has bubble gum holding his hamstring together. Jarry is also injury prone. Bowman always had veterans covering Crawford ass year after year from Turco-Emery-Raanta-Darling-Ward Bowman unlike Holland has always wanted above average goaltending. Bowman got caught with his pants down last year as he was sold a bill of goods by Skinner agent from loss of Weight-lateral movement blah blah blah Pickard was the players pick what does that tell you? Bowman didn’t want to rock the boat especially after not knowing if Connor was going to sign. This is now Bowman’s team no more iffy goaltending with a Coach who pulls the strings not the players coaching themselves. We will see shorter shifts with a pack of wolves mentality if someone runs Connor or Leon. Lastly for the love of Pete we finally have real goaltending.
I woukd have preffered broussoit at his hit especially.
We have a Goalie that has one the big enchilada Jarry may learn a trick or two from Anderson. I love that we finally have the net covered in all directions no more recalibration nonsense every 2 weeks.
Fibonacci watch:
The Athletic ranks SJ a free agent loser with the multi-year $18M additions of Trouba and Nurse (who saw one of Fibonacci’s favourite young SJ players return as part of the deal).
Similarly:
“In a matter of 20 minutes… The LA Kings have signed 4 players, who by the start of next season, will be 41, 39, 35, and 34.”
@EmptyNettersPod
Absolutely thrilled to sit back and watch Holland work for another team during UFA season…
Perry, Haula, Zuccarello, Gustafsson all on cheap short term contracts it looks like. Laughton on a good deal too. He had a pretty good day.
The Kings are changing their team name to the Los Angeles Boomers.
The regular season is a marathon. Come the dog days, those guys may be struggling – particularly on B2B nights.
HH went quiet after the Nurse trade. While everyone overspent, the Oilers handed out 1 prudent contract after another … balanced the roster, and they still have cap space remaining.
I’ve been sceptical about Bowman’s work over the past year, but he knocked it out of the park today.
But Bowman sucks
I say the Nurse deal was decided on weeks ago. I mentioned see if Nurse’s house is for sale. It was probably a private deal. A blood thirsty real agent would have known. I knew a very attractive woman acquaintance that was a real estate agent in the river valley area 30 years ago. I know she would have been all ears on this deal.
Pretty obvious what Grier’s strategy is.
He entered the offseason with a dearth of D.
He added Nurse, Trouba and Kesseriing all of whom have limited or no trade protection after 2 seasons.
They provide veteran cover while Sam Dickinson, Mattias Havelid, Keaton Verhoff, Ryan Lin and Eric Pohlkamp are ready to take over the reins.
And, for those keeping score at home, San Jose has $53.6 million in free cap space next offseason and still has $14 million (plus Logan Couture’s $8 million SELTIR) this year should another opportunity to present itself.
Sometimes both teams win in a trade. It’s all about fit just ask Arvidsson.
Interesting that Pronman’s assessment of the trade is Oilers B- and the Sharks B+.
Sure,
Celebrini 20M
Smith 15M
Graf 5M
With
Dickinson, Havelid, ect ect all needing new contracts.
However the contracts go that magical 53.6 is going to be gnawed down to 5.36 awfully quick.
Meh.
That’s only $40 million out of $62 million.
Still plenty of walking around money.
You are in fact ridiculous – I am sure you are aware. Here let me help you – “Meh”, now you don’t have to reply. Also please don’t.
hundred percent. San jose will be fine and more than fine. All the boo birds cants see the longer play
It’s not so much about SJS, it’s more about how Fibonacci has been:
A) frequently talking about how Nurse’s contract is one of the worst in the league that no smart GM would take unless there was retention
B) SJS has so much immense young talent who has already arrived, they don’t need a lot of vets to cover, especially expensive vets
C) SJS has so much cap space to weaponize they can quickly become a cup contender, especially with so much cheap young talent at their disposal
Fibonacci is pivoting because SJS went and paid for Nurse at full value while giving up one of his coveted, cheap, 2nd line D who can play LHD or RHD with a ceiling that could be a 1st line D in return + another blue chip prospect.
Then SJS and went and did exactly what HH said good teams don’t do, which is sign old guys to contracts that almost takes them into their 40s.
This is not a “SJS is doomed” free agency, this is a “Fibonacci was wrong again and is pretending like everything is going according to plan again” kinda situation.
There is no longer a bad contract in the entire league with the cap rising. Is this correct? Grier made mistakes today. Sorry.
We have always been at war with eurasia.
Do the math right. You know the drill.
Hamblin gets a 2-year (2-way) deal with Philly.
Good for him to get an NHL deal again (Oilers were offering an AHL deal) and term.
He will be missed on the Condors for sure.
Hamblin signed a 2 year deal with Anaheim.
Dineen signed with Philly.
Nice catch everyone makes mistakes just ask Dickenson.
I am in disbelief about the Nurse trade. No retention is huge.
i don’t know much about Ryan Shea. What’s the deal?
Same…..mammoth move to get Nurse moved.
Unsure on Shea….
Based on what I’ve been reading, sounds like a solid, if unspectacular, defender who isn’t great at stopping zone entries, but is mobile and can move the puck well. Late bloomer who peaked last year, had 35 pts, most of which came at 5×5, though was likely playing in some good luck. Had decent possession metrics and he was able to tread water in a 2LD role for the first half of the season (where Kulak was traded to the team and played above him). He was +30 on the season, for what it’s worth.
Sounds to me a lot like a Kulak or Kris Russell type, which is a good fit for where he’ll play and at a reasonable cap hit. Will be great value if the offensive production continues at that level, but imo he should cover the bet even if his numbers fall off a bit.
Thank you!
Also rates very well for zone exits and low turnovers. Played over 2 min per game on the PK with solid results. Led the entire roster in primary assists at 5 on 5 (including forwards). One of three d-men in the east with 35 points and +30.
Love this signing.
Looking forward to seeing a Lego-themed Oilers mask for Frederik!
Andersen has a NMC (and a 15-team no trade list).
He can’t be waived so its one of Levi or Jarry if they don’t carry 3 and I can’t imagine is the kid.
I suspect they’ll carry all 3.
Now that Nurse is gone, who gets an A on their jersey next year? Ekholm? Hyman?
Hyman I would think
i’m fine with either
I want to say Bouchard, but he’s not very vocal on the ice with the refs. Ekholm is the obvious choice … need at least 1 D-man with an A.
Ekholm will play with a touch more swagger with the A on his sweater.
I like all Oiler players. I say a lot they need to be less concerned about feelings. Still hard. Some guys are going to lose an EO job, but such is pro sports. But winning demands it
Also I can’t believe FA signed a 1M deal
The Panthers-Knights-Lightning have been eating the leagues lunch. Bowman has entered the building!!
Wow quite impressed with Stan today. Getting rid of nurse for something is absolutely amazing.
The atmosphere in here is exactly the same as the Jeff Jackson free agency. That seemed great as well at the time
Hear, hear!
And that year could have gone right if Knoblauch didn’t sabotage deployment.
Yep that and Goaltending.
Arvidsson played well as soon as he left the oilers and Jinner played great for us any time KK took off his leash. I still think those were both reasonable signings, just questionable use of personnel by KK
Heavens to Betsy Oilers fans are happy.
The way Bowman had been cooking today, he should have his own show called:
Wok With Stan
Incredible reference. Wok with Yan was great.
Remember the Edmonton version Yan Can? He was hilarious
Superior Wokmanship.
ooh I see what you did there. Nice!!
I doff my cap to you sir. Well played!
Wok you talkin’ about, Tarkus?
Stan talked the talk, now he needs to… wok the wok?
👌🏻
Puckpedia now showing the Oilers with about 6.4 mill in cap space. Assuming they still plan on signing Dach, Stastney, and Muck, doesn’t leave enough space for a top six forward I don’t think. Huge opportunity for Howard if this is the case
Sure but not everyone makes the team. Janmark gone or in Bako along with Jones for example opens up a couple million. So realistically could still go into the season with a full roster and around 5M in cap space.
True enough. Could maybe squeeze in that top six guy then.
They probably could be I don’t foresee it – Bowman wants some flexibility in season and he has it right now along with depth at every position.
That’s 6.4M at the max 23 roster players, so the only cap change that will happen signing those guys is if they sign for above the players they replace (usually 1M or so).
It looks like Mukhammadullin might get 2M or more, but the others won’t get much more. That likely amounts to 1-1.5 onto the cap when all is said and done.
So we’re left with 5M cap space, which is more than enough to sign a top 6 forward in the mold of Giroux.
I’m trying to remember the last time the Oilers were able to carry a 23 man roster at the start of the season.
That’s with 14F/6D/3G
One of Stastney/Muk won’t be on the roster if everyone is healthy, likely Stastney, so just add Muk’s cap hit.
Dach will be on, near $1MM, but two forwards will need to be removed from the roster – Josef and Jones/Janmark perhaps – as they will carry the 3 goalies.
They have tons of walking around money.
Just need Bowman to announce he’s signed the Dach brothers.
Kirby Dach was issued a QO worth $4 million by Montreal a few days back.
Well ok then
I like the Anderson signing. 0.905 goaltending last year would have made for a completely different season. Injury cover for Jarry and takes the pressure off Levi for this year. This feels like sound risk management, even if it does potentially eat up a roster spot
He was much better than that too per advanced metrics – Carolina is a tough environment for goalie numbers, per Woodly as, while they don’t give up many shots, when they do, its often high dangers – the highest percentage of high dangers in the league. Leads to a low expected save percentage which he outperformed.
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After trading Nurse & signing Shea, Kapanen, Jones, Joseph & Andersen, the #LetsGoOilers have $6.4M Projected Cap Space with 23 active players (14F/6D/3G)
RFA: Dach, Stastney, Mukhamadullin
With the max active roster of 23, they could create more space by sending down some of the players on the projected roster
One of Stastney/Muk won’t be on the roster if everyone is healthy, likely Stastney, so just add Muk’s cap hit.
Dach will be on, near $1MM, but two forwards will need to be removed from the roster – Josef and Jones/Janmark perhaps – as they will carry the 3 goalies.
They have tons of walking around money.
Multiple players that were coached by Babcock years ago willingly signing to play for him again. Hiring Babcock creating an issue for signing players clearly and objectively not a thing.
At this point, it almost seems like they’re going out of their way to get guys who’ve played for Babcock.
There are a few players who are still quite vocal about their negative encounters; most of these guys were marginal NHLers, who have amplified their social media presence by repeating the same tired gripes about Babcock.
Honestly, I’ve seen worse said about some of my colleagues on RateMD.
You can’t please everybody.
Some people are sensitive every Coach fuks over marginal players it’s the nature of the job.
Andersen/Jarry in the bigs. Ungar/Levi in the AHL? This just keeps getting better. What planet are we on?
Jarry/Ungar. You don’t want to risk Levi having to clear waivers. You don’t mind risking Jarry. JMO.
Assuming that Tompkins get’s traded.
Stauffer saying they will run 3 goalies.
Levi will not be in the AHL as he would need to clear waivers and they won’t expose him.
Jarry could be waived but from accounts it sounds like they will carry 3 in the NHL.
Yes, $1.8MM of potential performance bonuses for Andersen – had to be.
Don’t know what they are, likely games played but those vesting is a next year issue (if at all).
Listed below, GP & Playoff Rounds won
Likely to get the games played for a bonus of 1m and not as likely to get the Playoff rounds one for the other 800k. But, is a next year problem at worst.
Puckpedia:
Andersen 1M + 1.8M performance bonuses
NMC; 15 team no trade list — $600K for 10 GP … $400K for 20 GP … $200K each playoff round won where he plays 50% or more of games
So likely he’ll take at least 2M of cap, which is not bad at all.
I believe the Cap hit for this season is $1M
He’ll likely hit his games played bonuses, so that’s what gets you to 2M. Winning playoff rounds is more of a wildcard.
Don’t the bonuses count towards 27-28?
Those vested bonuses don’t hit the cap for this year – if any vest, they are added to the final cap calculation at the end of the season and, if it puts them over the cap for the year, there is a penalty next year. For this year, the cap hit will be $1MM.
If that’s the structure, he’ll only take $1MM of cap.
The performance bonuses don’t hit this year’s cap – if any vest, they are added to the final cap calculation at the end of the season and, if it puts them over the cap for the year, there is a penalty next year. For this year, the cap hit will be $1MM.
I am surprisingly comfortable with our goaltending now
Sunny Mehta is a bad bad man.
There was a deal at the draft to trade Barrett Hayton to NJ and UTA pulled out at the last minute. The 1 year $4.775M offer sheet walks Hayton to UFA status next year so even if the Mammoth match, they’re looking at losing him for nothing at the end of the season.
Even if they match, Hayton and his agent have all the cards to ask for the moon on an extension. If they want to explore a trade, every other team will offer anchors or 3rd round picks knowing Utah is backed into a corner. The compensation will only be a 2nd rounder if they decline to match for the former 5th overall pick in 2018.
if they match they can’t trade Hayton for a calendar year.
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Utah has one week to match
There is a bit of a poison pill here, too. If Mammoth do match…they cannot trade him for one calendar year. But, Hayton can become a UFA next July.
Oooh great point! Then Hayton walks to UFA or gets PAID by Utah to stay.
Anderson Jarry with Levi in the minors it seems
There’s no way they waive Levi and risk losing him when Jarry clears without question. And if someone claims Jarry, it’s even better.
Levi has to pass thru waivers so zero chance he is in the minors. Bowman said he’s getting a chance as well. Running 3 goalies seems likely to start, awaiting an inevitable injury, and reasonable given their cap space currently.
Good points. Could be more to come
Bob Stauffer
@Bob_Stauffer
Frederik Anderson has history with @EdmontonOilers
Head Coach Mike Babcock.
Very good goalie.
Fully expect the team to carry 3 goalies: Jarry/Anderson/Levi.
Great growth opportunity for Levi.
Bonus laden contract for Anderson.
Talk about going for it. There is no comparison to the Holland era. Bonkers
Other than the Frederic contract, I feel like we’re finally seeing lots of cap-efficient bets on guys like Dach, Jones, Kapanen and now Joseph to round out our bottom 6. I like the fact we picked up one bonafide league-average goalie and one journeyman with a decent floor and high potential ceiling, and their combined cap hit is less than 2M! These are the kinds of moves that analytics are supposed to help with.
Based on nothing but thinking about it, if everyone if fully healthy, I think they waive Jarry and send him down (won’t be claimed) as they won’t waive Levi and Andersen probably gets claimed at $1MM – they won’t carry three or expose Levi, right?
My guess is they carry 3 to start or Freddie starts on IR? I believe he hurt his knee in the finals.
1 year, $1MM AAV for Freddie Anderson – well can’t complain about a zero risk deal.
I wonder about performance bonuses that will be reported at some point? He’s 36 and eligible.
Wonder if Anderson is super cheap with performance bonuses which he is eligible for?
I hope so!
Det er han! (He is!)
So much for a “quiet day” – so many transactions, I’m having trouble processing.
The only one I have trepidation about right now is Anderson as I don’t understand it and don’t know the contract details.
I mean, they aren’t going to waive Levi and Bowman did say Jarry will be here. Is it a competition between Anderson and Jarry to tandem with Levi – there are only 2 exhibition games available to vets.
Anderson had bad trad numbers last year but he was well above expected – lets not forget, Carolina did not give up many shots but gave up the highest percentage of high danger in the league – Woodly calls it the toughest goalie environment in the league when looking a expected save percentage. He’s legit good when healthy.
Love the Shea deal, like Shakir and love the way Bowman got out of the Nurse deal, love the Kap signing given market prices, great with Jones – don’t understand Anderson.
Doesn’t seem like Babcock scared away players.
Seems like the Oilers inability to defend was a bigger concern
Andersen was Babcock’s #1 in Toronto, but he would overplay him, and Andersen would get hurt. On repeat.
Oh boy.
Great to have Jones signed at $850K.
There is going to be a TON of competition for roster spots and, with only 4 exhibition games, and two permitted for vets. its going to be tough to sort through all these players.
Maximum Jones at a minimum wage!
Happy to have the depth, but can someone explain how Max Jones signs a league min deal, while a dude named Jeffrey Viel gets 5 x 2.5 (insert tax free state comment/Brisebois praise)?
[CAP!] SPACE! MADNESS!
Because small samples sizes?
https://puckiq.com/players/8479705
Jones did spend half the year in the minors and still is not established as an every day NHL player – even though he started to show consistency for the Oil last season.
He may not make this team – they have a ton of comp in the bottom 6 right now and may need to carry 3G.
I don’t imagine they are going to risk Levi on waivers so one of Jarry/Anderson would not make the team, right?
Jarry and Anderson are injury prone. Run three goaltenders like Buffalo did last year.
Every team should do this.
Hearing Freddie Anderson to the Oilers. Can’t confirm though.
Kevin Weekes on X
What would the plan be? If Levi can’t beat out Jarry or Anderson then it’s ok to lose him on waivers?
Or take the two best goalies out of camp and move the other? (Preseason is shorter now.)
Run three goalies for a month or two?
Jarry will be the one to put on waivers and if someone takes him you thank your lucky stars.
Exactly. If Jarry is waived and someone picks him up, there’s a lot of cap relief.
Still, you now have 2 goalies who are suspeptible to injury. But I don’t think you have to worry about either being claimed when one goes on waivers.
From TSN and X:
Oilers add G Andersen, re-sign F JonesThe Edmonton Oilers have signed goaltender Frederik Andersen to a one-year deal, according to TSN’s Chris Johnston. The moves comes after the team traded for netminder Devon Levi earlier in the day.
The team also re-signed forward Max Jones to a one-year contract with an AAV of $850,000.
@reporterchris
Can confirm @KevinWeekes report: Frederik Andersen is heading to Edmonton on a one-year deal.
He is already listed on Daily Faceoff.
https://www.dailyfaceoff.com/teams/edmonton-oilers/line-combinations
Can’t find the cap.
Levi sounds like a very mature young man. Very greatful for the time in the AHL says it was huge to make him who he is today. Battled through some adversity and it’s was the most amazing thing for him.
Playing through the chaos of the AHL helped him learn to stay calm.
Compared to last years playoff team
A little bit worse at F (losing Roslovic, but was pretty invisible playoffs)
Deeper at D, and based on performance last year possibly better on the left side
G the great unknown. At present likely worse, but likelihood Jarry can play at level or greater that Ingram gave us last season is probably a coin flip.
~8.5 cap space. I do worry about consuming it on fringe players like Dach and Stastney instead of going for one bigger fish
I love the roster given where they were 2 months ago.
Its getting balanced by the hour and deeper.
Bowman suggests they will go in to the season with cap space (may spend some more in addition to RFA’s in the next few days but would like to go in to the year with some space).
Note, that was on air before the Kap signing.
Kapanen 1 year 2.6 mill. On tsn Recap of oilers moves. Not a bad deal compared tl some today.
Absolutely. Could have easily been a 4
Shakir will be used on the PK says Bowman – they are excited about his pk.
Mentioned that Shea’s PK was elite last year.
I didn’t see any basic metrics to support that it was elite. His HDSCA/60 was relatively poor on the team, but way better than Nurse. Assuming they got the fancies covered. Also believe there is some coaching involved in these stats
Something has to give then. They didn’t sign Shea not to play. Is Walman not a lock? Or is Bowman intimating that Shakir will displace Emberson.
As for Matthew Joseph (from ON):
This contract has the fingerprints of the Oilers’ analytics department, as Joseph has been a strong driver of play. This past season, despite driving offence at a six per cent rate below league average, he drove defence at a 12 per cent rate above league average, and penalty kill play at a six per cent rate above league average, according to HockeyViz. Throughout his career, Joseph has driven play at the rate of between a low-end second-line player, and an average first line player, with his most recent season between second- and third-line contributions.
A million dollar Maroon type result would be something else.
I like the Joseph signing. He has a motor and can forecheck like a demon. He could be a valuable agitator on the 4th line. I recall an incident with him mixing it up with the Oilers in his rookie season in TBay … don’t remember exactly with who or what it was though… just remember it pissed me off and has stuck with me for 8 years, haha
It was Lucic who went over and pummeled him.
With Nurse and Skinner gone, who will fans want to run out of town next?
Jarry?
Bouchard?
Walman
Do you mean “whose play will get them run out of town?
Don’t know if anyone mentioned it earlier, but Sam Poulin signed with Montreal and Cam Dineen signed with Philadelphia. There’s some depth not returning to Bakersfield.
Expected both to move on, old for them.
One, or both, of Stastney or Regula could be in Bako, if they clear.
They’ll get the big Latvian, Owen Michaels and, with Kap and Jones back, well, they have a ton of forwards, likely Josef down – who knows with Janny.
They might get some depth in goal with Jarry given this Andersen signing.
Guaranteed.
Should be interesting to see how they flesh out the roster for the the Condors, the number of players on the Oilers, a few will be California bound pending waivers.
Nice to have this type of depth.