Matt Sekeres et Blake Price discutent de la possibilité pour les Canucks de se retirer du contrat d’Oliver Ekman-Larsson s’ils peuvent trouver un partenaire de danse pour assumer son contrat après qu’Elliotte Friedman a annoncé que l’équipe pourrait envisager de l’échanger cet été. Écoutez et abonnez-vous au podcast : https://lnk.to/SPMay1022 🔗 : https://linktr.ee/SekeresAndPrice
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I love oel and he was fine value for his cap hit given. Why? sure he might get worse, but why are we discussing this?
Fkn. Jim benning should of got fired last offseason jb was making desperate deals to try to save his job
Sure, he's tradable. It's just a matter of what the Canucks would have to throw in for someone to take that contract on. We don't have the assets to be giving players away to clear cap space. And who do we replace him with? It's not like teams are going to be lining up to give us a prime prospect or pick for OEL, and that's even assuming he would accept a trade elsewhere. Also, he was perhaps our best defensive defenseman last year and took a huge load off Quinn Hughes. If I'm looking to trade a defenseman, it's Tyler Myers, not Oliver Ekman-Larsson. I'm keeping the guy who can actually play defence and not take stupid penalties. I'm not saying Myers would be that much easier to move than OEL, but he'd be the first guy I'd try to move, even if it's for a mid-round pick. OEL is still a bonafide top 4 defensive d-man who can play in almost all situations.
I actually like having OEL, Hughes and Schenn in the top 3. Luke was shockingly good last year. I don't know that he can maintain that for even one more season, but at his cap hit, he's worth a shot. Looking at the roster, there are guys I would move well before OEL, and guys that could probably be moved easier. With OEL, we're going to expect a significant return. We'd be fools to trade him for peanuts. Trading Myers for a 3rd or 4th rounder with 0 cap retained is a much easier pill for me to swallow than OEL. And the difference in cap money for us is $1.1 mil.
At this point, Miller, Myers, Pearson and even Boeser if we can't come to a reasonable contract extension would higher on my list to move than OEL. We can get a much bigger return for Miller or Boeser, and losing Myers and Pearson won't hurt us as much as losing someone like OEL. Our problem last year was defensive play, and getting rid of perhaps our be defensive defenseman might not be the wisest idea. Rathbone isn't a replacement for OEL. He's not that kind of player and probably never will be. He's basically a poor man's Quinn. Having Dermott means that losing a guy like Myers won't hurt as much. We can always put Dermott in the top 4 in a pinch and bring up Rathbone for the 3rd pairing, losing very little. Maybe use some of the cap space to sign a cheap 3rd pairing defensive defenseman. But OEL is one of the last people I would trade right now.
They won't trade him to costly and there is no market for him.
May as well keep him nobody dumb enough to take that contract , probably a buy out one day maybe 2025 ?
Canucks should off kept Beagle Erickson rouselle final years Bad Trade Benning mistakes those contracts like Myers poolman Pearson Sutter Beartchi ferland oel and on
Better hope jb gets a GM job some where, he'll take oel
Don't forget, the Canucks would have to add a sweetner to get rid of O.E.L. That sweetner would have to be a draft pick (1st or 2nd round) & a player! That is just what the market has been for doing a salary dump.
Its tradable…but the Canucks will have to retain a couple million in salary.