Équipe: 2022-23 Oilers d'Edmonton

Date de création initiale: 4 oct. 2022

Publié: 4 oct. 2022

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

I'm not sure what it would take to get a bottom team with cap space to take on Foegele or which team might be interested, so I somewhat randomly chose BUF. I don't think they'd need to send anything better than a 5th rounder with him as a sweetener.

I might put Ryan on waivers and bring Bourgault up for the opening roster to get his $177,500 bonus on the roster as a paper transaction, then switch them after cap compliance day.

I'm not sure when to expose Samorukov to waivers. They probably have to sneak him through at some point. Maybe now is the time, when many teams still don't know if they'll have room for him. Or maybe it's after cap compliance when teams have pretty much filled their rosters. OR maybe he improves enough to stick as the preseason moves along and the regular season is a few games old.

Niemelainen has impressed, but Broberg hasn't exactly lost his spot. Maybe Holland keeps 9D and 12F to start.

I think Benson has both earned his spot and may make it based on his cheap contract. I hope his injury isn't severe and he's just being precautionary.

Janmark hasn't shown much in the preseason but he has scored at a 20-goal pace for 2 different teams. 20-goal scorers don't get waived or play on the 4th. As much as I like McLeod, he hasn't scored much at the NHL level. Maybe he does end up 4th C.

I think one of the hardest choices is deciding who is on 1RW. Puljujarvi or Yamamoto? The consolation prize isn't too bad though with Nugent-Hopkins and Janmark on the 3rd line against easier competition.

I do wonder if, by the end of the year, the D ends up as Nurse-Bouchard, Broberg-Ceci, Kulak-Barrie. That gives offense with defense, and youth with experience on each pairing.