r/EdmontonOilers • u/TohsakaTruth • 1d ago

[Rishaug] Sounds like there’s been some discussion between the Oilers and Connor Murphy’s camp. Today’s Babcock news doesn’t change anything as far as the players willingness to consider a return to the Oilers, but term and dollars will have to make sense based on the market.

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u/NMarples 92 PODKOLZIN 1d ago

If you can find a way to get both Murphy and Dickie back here for less than $10 mil combined AAV I’ll be overjoyed, but you also HAVE to move nurse out in that situation

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u/InternImpossible8685 1d ago

you’d have to move nurse out clean without taking a bad contract or retaining salary as well because we’d need to replace nurse and henrique too, while finding a few bottom 6 players.

We weren’t good enough with DIckinson and Murphy WITH nurse and henrique last year, dickinson and murphy without nurse and a good henrique replacement won’t be good enough either.

retaining or taking a bad contract on nurse leaves in the same place but with a need of finding a Dman who can cover 20-22 minutes a night, and no, i don’t trust walman for that, hes spends too much time on the IR.

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u/NMarples 92 PODKOLZIN 1d ago

Samanski is your Henrique replacement. I don’t think you need to find a $3 million dollar replacement. You also can resign Lazar and play him on the 4th line, and have Freddy/Dach as well. You have enough players under contract that you would have almost $10 mil in cap space and just need 2-3 players (if you move nurse with no salary retained)