March 1, 2024 /

Edmonton Oilers Trade Talk: If This is True, the Oilers MUST Go and Get Him!

The trade prices are slowly being revealed to us and surprisingly, they might favor the Edmonton Oilers more than we thought they might. Waiting until the day before the trade deadline in order to accrue even more cap space might work out to be a genius move. We’ll have to wait and see.

Today, more or less another helping of the same dish we’ve been lapping up all week long. Which RWers are the Oilers targeting? Who’s the right-shot bottom six center that Edmonton’s going to get? Will Ken Holland end up stacking some players from the same club to get a cheaper price?

It would be nice if teams started panic buying though. Just from a fan’s perspective, I’m almost at the point to where I want to be talking about actual trades than the rumors.

I should start prefacing these blogs with the fact that I write them a day in advance and because we’re getting so close to the deadline there’s a good chance I might write about a player or a team and it be old news by the time it gets to your beautiful eyes. If that happens, my apologies!

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The Latest Edmonton Oilers Trade Rumors

Righty Tighty

“We know that the Edmonton Oilers have been targeting a top-six forward, so both teams are looking at players like Tyler Toffoli, Pavel Buchevich of the St. Louis Blues, maybe Jordan Eberle if he doesn’t sign with the Seattle Kraken. I mean, go down the list from there. There is a list of high-level players potentially available and you can be sure the Oilers and Vegas Golden Knights are going to be among the top clubs trying to pick one up.” – Darren Dreger, TSN

  • If the Oilers were going to go big game hunting, Buchnevich would probably be the guy, right? Bob Stauffer said Colton Parayko is highly unlikely, so that’ll burst a lot of balloons in Edmonton.
  • Now, with that said, there’s been a lot of hot air blown about with regards to the Oilers’ scoring outside of Connor and Leon, so why try to get even heavier in the top-six? Why not start upgrading the bottom-six?
  • I mean, would Evander Kane be so upset to play on third line if Adam Henrique were his center?
  • Your second line wouldn’t be as pretty, but you’d have McLeod and Draisaitl (who have shared some success together previously), and another winger like Foegele or a trade pickup in the vein of Vladdy Tarasenko or Jordan Eberle. Would that be so painful?
  • But personally, if they don’t do something about the 4th line and their defense, it’ll all be for naught because they’re going to need that depth just to stay in the games with real contenders this year (Vancouver, Colorado, Dallas, Winnipeg, Vegas) let alone beat them.
  • You look at those clubs and they’ve got the Oilers beat in depth at one, two, or all three positions (F/D/G). Edmonton is so bloody top heavy right now. They need to find balance in the lineup.

Anything Could Happen

“…maybe, the Oilers investigate moving Ceci, even if he’s Holland’s more prototypical size D at 6’3” and 210, who has an extra year at $3.25 million, to Philadelphia for their feisty centre Scott Laughton (this season and two more at $3 million) who could be a 3C with Ryan McLeod moving to left-wing…

The Oilers are also looking for a right-shot fourth-line centre, bigger than Derek Ryan, who is a first-unit, penalty-killer, a dogged worker and good face-off man but could move to right wing…

The chances of a Mattias Ekholm home run might not be there. But Holland would take a ground-rule double and a couple of hard-hit singles. If he feels he needs a right winger for Leon Draisaitl, then maybe he only adds two people. If not, maybe he has enough for an extra defenceman and two bottom-six, hard to play against forwards.” – Jim Matheson

  • So if McLeod goes to the LW, that’d shoot Holloway either up the lineup to be on Leon’s wing or down the roster to the 4th line (where he doesn’t need to be)…
  • Ceci for Laughton, who replaces Ceci? Seems a tad short-sighted to make that trade, in my opinion. If they’re dealing him, a right-shot defender should be coming back, no? And a better one, at that.
  • I don’t see this team hitting a home-run, but I also foresee the deadline going differently now that Jeff Jackson is involved now.
  • As for that 4th line center, it seems like fait accompli that Nic Dowd or Sam Carrick end up an Oilers and they’re #2 and #4 in PK TOI/GP in the league. MTL’s Jake Evans is #1 with a staggering 3:08min/GP on the kill.
  • I’d suggest Noel Acciari as well because he’s way better at taking faceoffs than those mentioned above and surely the Pens wouldn’t have an issue moving on from him.

Get it Done!

“Seravalli did note that the Ducks are reportedly looking for second- and third-round picks, plus another third-round pick to retain half of Henrique’s salary. The 34-year-old has 16 goals and 38 points through 57 games, a salary cap hit of $5.825 million, and will be a free agent at the end of the season.” – Oilersnation

  • If this is true, the Oilers MUST go out and get him.
  • This is one trade that Edmonton could manufacture easily and they wouldn’t have to sacrifice off of the main roster. They could use another 4th to get another team to eat some salary as well, making it an even cheaper deal thus opening up the opportunity to upgrade the defense and possible the 4th line, too.
  • The team could still move Foegele to upgrade the RW, they could move Ceci in a deal to get a more suitable partner for Nurse.  Also, I think Ceci has to be fed up with the rumors by now. He might be happy to move on to a different fanbase.

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