I like the jersey trade.

What happened to Athanasiou? why is he being shipped off already?

I don’t like this at all. Rather have Bear over Brown, give AA a chance. Colorado easily wins that trade, not a fan of Montour, and we would have Bear, Bouchard if you didn’t do those. I don’t like it at all!

If Jones was a righty then I would make that Avs trade but we have no need for another LHD with Girard, Graves, Cole, Zadorov, and Byram

Bear for Brown is horrible for the Oilers. Bear led all rookies in ice time and didn't look out of place at all. Hes looking like a great second pairing and pp1 kind of guy.

I like the Sheahan, Stone and Haas contracts. I'd also take a stab at Galchenyuk, but I would imagine he's gonna cost a little more than that on only a 2 year deal.

If Yamamoto picks up where he left off and carries it early into next season, that would be a great deal for both him and the team.

If Nuge agrees to an under the table deal, where we can expose him in the expansion draft as a UFA, but sign him immediately after, I'd go as high as $7.5M for 8 years. He's a fan favourite, plays well with both McDavid and Draisaitl.

Seems like its too soon to give up on AA. He only played a handful of games and we paid a pretty heavy price. I'd rathre give him a full season to see where he fits in before making a decision to move him.

montour is overated and paying that for him is terrible
with graves,giraud and zadorov, avs have no use for jones
would rather have bear over haminoc and montour
Galchenyuk is overated

he didn't play really good in the 7 games after the trade deadline and in camp, he couldn't work with drai and yam and was demoted to the third line

No cap space for his QO

Sabres decline

What if I replaced Jones with Matt Benning?

I don't think Benning is as valuable as Jones. At that point I'd rather just get picks for him, or if you make it a 3 way trade where we flip Jones somewhere else for a forward or RHD

I actually think a LHD prospect could work better for Colorado if the idea is to acquire a Dman to join the team in 2021. If we're talking about 2023 being the timeline though I'd lean towards a RHD though given that we need to replace Johnson at that stage.

You're right that we're deep at LHD right now, but Zadorov will likely get traded this offseason, leaving our D group for 2020/21 as some iteration of these 7 Dmen:

Graves --- Makar
Girard ---- Johnson
Cole ------ Timmins
Byram

In 2021 Cole heads to UFA, and Byram will probably take on a bigger role, thereby pushing Graves down to the 3rd pairing...

Byram --- Makar
Girard --- Timmins
Graves -- Johnson
7D

In 2021 we're going to need to resign Makar, Landeskog, Grubauer, and Timmins, and having Graves on the 3rd pairing making around $3m would be the obvious place to shave some salary if we need to find capspace.... However, that would be difficult to do given that we don't really have a LHD prospect ready for that sort of bottom pairing role (on an ELC/cheap contract) should we need to move Graves.

Zhuravlyov is our only LHD prospect beyond Byram, but he's still over in Russia and has yet to play in NA so it seems like a long-shot that he would be available then. Having a LHD like Caleb Jones (or another 3rd pairing LHD who's good on the PK) would be pretty useful, and give us options with regards to Graves. Said player could also help give us depth as we're going to need to top up with depth Dmen after Barberio and Connauton head to UFA, and Byram and Timmins graduate to the NHL.

That all said, I think we can afford to wait to make a trade for a young 3rd pair LHD until 2021, unless there's an opportunity that is too good to pass up right now. And I'm not sure Benson + Jones is that opportunity.

Benson looked promising at one stage but seems to have tapered off a bit, and whilst Jones does look decent, I think we can do a bit better if we trade Jost. it's much harder to find young, cheap, and defensively reliable 3rd liners who also have offensive upside, than it is to find replacement level 3rd pairing Dmen after all. Admittedly I haven't been watching Jones and Benson closely though, so if @Oilfan1717 wants to enlighten me about their progress I remain open minded and am ready to be convinced about their merits...

@Oilfan1717 How would you compare Jones and Samorukov in terms of quality and potential?

Even Seattle has no interest in Kassian, Holland made the bed now you lie in it

Cause he didn't instantly click with McDavid, didn't get 10 goals in 5 games, he's gotta go

They'd get cracked down on hard for circumventing the rules. Maybe forfeit a 1st.

Seattle is paying Edmonton a huge amount of money to get a player from them.

see: Ty Rattie

Montour and Brown are grossly overpaid

30 goal scorer dough

Similar players in many respects. Jones appears to be a better prospect but is further along In his development. One big advantage is that Jones prefers to play his off-side, which is good as Samaorukov is one of many LHD is the Oilers system.