The Oilers don’t have a lot of financial flexibility right now. Per CapFriendly, they have around $5.6MM in room at the moment but with defenseman Evan Bouchard and center Ryan McLeod both needing new deals, that might not be enough. To that end, Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli suggested (audio link) that Edmonton might have been the biggest losers from the Philipp Kurashev arbitration award, one that saw the Chicago forward get $2.25MM per season. Seravalli believes that the Oilers were likely hoping to get McLeod’s deal done for a little less than $2MM but that might be hard to do now. McLeod (11 goals, 12 assists in 57 games) is coming off a better platform year than Kurashev (nine goals, 16 assists in 70 contests) so if his case gets to a hearing, it’s safe to say they’ll be using the Kurashev contract as a comparable.
More from the West:
- The Wild are hoping to get defenseman Calen Addison signed for just above the league minimum, Joe Smith and Shayna Goldman of The Athletic note (subscription link). Minnesota tendered him a qualifying offer of $787,500 and it would appear that they’re holding firm to that offer for now. They have around $5.93MM of cap room per CapFriendly with the bulk of that earmarked for goaltender Filip Gustavsson whose arbitration hearing is scheduled next Friday. By pushing for Addison to take a one-year agreement, GM Bill Guerin is hoping to have enough cap space left over after Gustavsson gets his new deal to allow them to have a reasonable-sized cushion for in-season movement.
- Kraken defenseman Vince Dunn met with the media today including Geoff Baker of The Seattle Times following his four-year, $29.4MM contract from last week. The medium-term agreement raised some eyebrows and Dunn acknowledged that a factor was the possibility to try to land another sizable deal when he’s 30 in what should be a bigger salary cap environment. Dunn did make it clear that he has no desire to leave Seattle when his contract expires in the 2027 offseason.
Anyone know if Addison is offer sheet eligible?
Does it really matter?
What player has ever been offer sheeted for a minimum contract?
Does it really matter?
What player has ever been offer sheeted for a minimum contract?
He’s not getting much of any more then that.
It would appear he is eligible. Managed to get his 80th game in last year to make him so.
Guerin is smoking the drapes!!!!!!!
I smoked a Camel once. I’ll never do that again. It tasted really gamey.
Addison had a pretty good year, he should be worth atleast $2.5M
62 games, 3 goals, 16 assists, 16 min/game with no defense and an ugly -17 +/-
Typo, should be 29 assists.
And he’s an RFA.
There is no way he is getting 2.5
No defense?! His 60.8 CF% shows he was unreal defensively.
Using +/- as a meaningful stat is antiquated.
Unreal defensively? You must not have seen any of his games. WAY closer to unplayable than unreal; unless you mean that in the context of “it’s unreal any defenseman can play that disinterested and poorly on defense”
An offer sheet of $1.5m would make sense – minimum compensation while Stars are handcuffed by those buyout dollars on the books.
Stars offer him $1.5 mil, Guerin would say “he’s yours now”.
Addison is worse than ugly on D. But Guerin won’t get rid of him because he was his first trade when he took over the Wild. His offense on the PP does not makeup for his lacking defensive abilities. Most of his PP points came in the first couple of weeks last year. The only reason that the Wild want to keep him for this year is because of the low cap hit he should cost. Notice how there were NO teams looking to trade for him this off-season.
Wild need to cut their losses with him.
It has been wildly talked about here in minny that he had problems taking directions and dealing with responsibility last year which is why he sat so many games.
We don’t need another Suter on the team or in the locker room.
Trade him and get some cap space and let one of the young guys come up from Iowa since we have plenty of Dmen to go around