No thanks if I'm moving nuge I want Gallagher

K good luck winning the Cup with the D you currently have + holding onto all those huge contracts after next year

As a Habs fan, I'd do this trade in a second. As an Oilers fan, I'd wonder if I couldn't have got a lot more.

Biggest problem, though, is you've left no money for a raise for Price this year and Danault and MaxPac next year. The cap management is out the window.

Nuge and a second round pick for Gallagher and a first or Gallagher and Juulsen or give Davidson back

The Oilers D-core is better with Benning than with Schlemko and Benn and Nuge is far better than Pleckanec. I'd even go as far to say Oilers d-core with Sekera is better:
Klefbom>Markov Weber>Larsson, Sekera>Benn, Petry>Russell, Nurse>Davidson, and Benning>Schlemko.

The oilers have a young d core besides sekera and Russell.

In a couple years it will be

Klefbom - Larsson
Nurse - benning
Jones -Bear

HABS are already in a panic to fill out their blueline, so why would they trade away even more of what they already have?

At this point I'm not convinced that the Oilers are looking for big changes to their 6-man defensive unit. Their top pair is locked down. They need some temporary help for the second pair, but the future number 2 pair is developing nicely, and should become much stronger as Nurse and Benning rotate in with Russell. If they sign Gryba as an inexpensive stop-gap its the same collection of players from last season, but the entire D improves as the young guys gain more experience. Losing Reinhart stung them a bit, but they have some other young d-men who might be close, so depth isn't the same issue it was just a couple years ago.

Only reasons to part with RNH would be to acquire a bigger, stronger centre who is better with face-offs, or to free cap space. The cap pressure isn't real until next summer. The Oilers have $18M in space now, and probably $11M to $11.5M after they sign Draisaitl. Fayne and Korpikosky come off the books after next season, that frees an additional $3.6M. If they buy out Pouliot, they clear another $2.67M.

did you just say Klefbom is better than Markov and Weber

No he said klefbom > markov but weber > Larsson

But klefbom is better then markov

You pay Gally 4.75m to protect him on the third line (might work with home games) but then your number one centre is Danault.

actually, statistically, markov is better. Klefbom is only more valuable because of age

Uh, Klefbom is vastly better per Garret Holh's WAR charts via Twitter.

whats the account

Both teams lost that deal badly.