I hope they could afford them they’re not very good

He could fire the cannon.

Oilers accept

If you are willing to take salary long term how about trading wennberg. How does kulikov, vallatti, a 2nd, and a 3rd for wennberg 900k retained sound?

Why the hell would CBJ do that?

They wouldn't.

for three draft picks that they are currently lacking

2nd 3rd and 5th round picks aren’t worth taking on that god awful contract

It's not the contract per se that is bad -- it's the contract's effect on the team's finances.

This post was a response to all of the Edmonton fans who keep dreaming that someone (usually Vancouver in exchange for Loui Eriksson's similarly horrible contract) is going to take Lucic off their hands, even if Lucic were to waive his NMC. It just can't happen.

Look how much cap space is left on this roster. Then consider that next year, you'll have to re-sign Pierre-Luc Dubois and Josh Anderson, as well as others. Anderson alone will probably eat up the surplus and the cap rise in 2020-2021. In short, even if Edmonton were to retain 50% of Lucic's cap hit, this wouldn't be possible. And Columbus is at the bottom of the cap table.