Edmonton Oilers Talk: “Who is a candidate for trade at this year’s deadline?”

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Oilers’ Tippett Needs More Than a Good Regular Season

If Tippett can’t get the Oilers into the playoffs, it’s a safe bet that he won’t be back next season.
If the Oilers make the playoffs but don’t advance past the first round, the team may have a new coach next season.
Things begin to get interesting if the Oilers win one round and can’t advance past the second round. Will Holland keep Tippett then?
If the Oilers are able to advance at least two rounds in the playoffs, there might be a good chance that Tippett will be invited back to finish the job.
Oilers make the Finals. You have to believe Tippett will get a new contract.
Oilers win the Stanley Cup (Dare to dream, Oilers fans). The choice will be Tippett’s.

BLH’s Thoughts: My feeling is that short of the Conference Final, Tippett might be out. I come to that conclusion just based on some of the verbal coming out of the media and what I’m being hinted at privately. I just wonder if he’d rather be relaxing at home than grinding away at the day-to-day coaching responsibilities.

Plus the will be some very high profile coaches available come season’s end like Claude Julien (who was once Edmonton’s AHL head coach in Hamilton I believe), Bruce Boudreau (Of Slap Shot fame), Mike Babcock (A little bit of history there with Holland), and the team’s very own internal option, Jay Woodcroft.

Lowetide.ca

WINTERLONG

One of the few times Edmonton has received more value for prospects is at the trade deadline. Looking ahead, who is a candidate for trade at this year’s deadline?
One of the things we’ll be discussing as the trade deadline approaches is what assets can be sent away for immediate, short-term help. Edmonton’s first-round pick for the 2022 draft may be in play, my guess is for a goalie. There’s likely a defenseman on the wish list, maybe a two-way centre and possibly a veteran scoring RW depending on how things go this winterlong.
Edmonton owns its own first, fourth, fifth and sixth round picks in 2022, and either the second or the third depending on the final final on Duncan Keith’s deal.
I expect Holland may deal a prospect or two…
Among minor leaguers, Cooper Marody and William Lagesson qualify, possibly Markus Niemelainen.
My guess is that Holland’s whiteboard has the 2022 first, Benson, Lagesson and the full slate of 2023 draft picks as possible assets out at the deadline. The club has an extra goalie prospect too, but I’m uncertain any of them would be considered for trade at this time.

BLH’s Thoughts: Benson’s definitely on that list, the 1st round as well. I don’t think they’d get much for minor league free agents like Marody and Lagesson though. Could Ryan McLeod be on the whiteboard or Olivier Rodrigue? Would the team consider moving Kailer Yamamoto in the right deal?

When it comes to moveable prospects, the Oilers have a ton of them, but their value isn’t high and that’s the problem. Aapeli Rasanen, Niemelainen, Tomas Mazura, Filip Engras…

The team also has some very good youngsters they probably shouldn’t be moving like Dmitri Samorukov, Phil Broberg, Dylan Holloway, Rafa Lavoie, Carter Savoie, the handful of Russians whose names I can’t spell (Denezhkin, Berezkin, and Petrov).

So with that in mind, is the club really in a great position to be making trades with futures right now or are we about to see Ken Holland step into his wheelhouse and start pilfering blue chippers for established NHL players like he did in Detroit for years?

NHLTradeRumor.com

Anthony Di Marco of The Fourth Period reports St. Louis Blues General Manager Doug Armstrong kicked tires on Eichel’s services. “They were certainly in the mix, they were certainly one of those teams that didn’t want to disclose themselves as say, one of the ‘front runners,’ but one of the teams that inquired heavily about it and felt like they had the components, at the time, that could certainly be a package that would be suitable for the Buffalo Sabres.

Di Marco went on to say, names like Jordan Kyrou and Robert Thomas are ones that would be part of the asking price from the Sabres in a trade for Eichel.

Larry Brooks of the New York Post stated, so, when does the talk begin to kick in about Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, each with two years remaining on contracts with matching cap hits of $10.5 million per and no-move clauses, becoming available at the NHL trade deadline in a trade out of Chicago?

An interesting scenario could be a Kane trade involving Buffalo Sabres Jack Eichel.