Elliot signing rocks!
Wennberg&Brown are premature washed ups.
Donskoi signing dubious, question availability.
Pretty well done..-~

Your logic is flawed is you think Carolina "needs to get to the cap floor". Just not true. Teams can raise their cap spending by signing players the have value then take on crappy long term contracts.

I’m using Carolina as an example as a low cap spending team that can afford his cap. You could use Florida, the sens, Arizona etc as teams that are typically at the basement in terms of spending money. My point being his cap is not going to affect the team because they aren’t even close to the high limit, and his actual dollars paid isn’t that much if the oilers are willing to eat half - Katz is not short on dollars here even for NHL standards. Plus I feel teams, still value the things lucic brings in the locker room - and nhl gms live in the past - hence Chiarelli (lol) so it’s not impossible to imagine a team coached by Rod Brind’Amour finding “value” in lucic for no cost.

I’m using Carolina as an example as a low cap spending team that can afford his cap. You could use Florida, the sens, Arizona etc as teams that are typically at the basement in terms of spending money. My point being his cap is not going to affect the team because they aren’t even close to the high limit, and his actual dollars paid isn’t that much if the oilers are willing to eat half - Katz is not short on dollars here even for NHL standards. Plus I feel teams, still value the things lucic brings in the locker room - and nhl gms live in the past - hence Chiarelli (lol) so it’s not impossible to imagine a team coached by Rod Brind’Amour finding “value” in lucic for no cost.

Thanks for the response. I feel in terms of wennberg oilers need to take a chance and try and buy low on a guy that maybe at his best is only a 45-50 point player, regardless still a massive improvement to their current crop and not an insane cost.

Donskoi is a 3rd line for sure but provides options and Elliot is a perfect compliment to Koskinen in terms of being able to take the reigns, maybe not for long, in case of struggle.