End of the 25-26 season, yes. He's on a $12.5 million cap hit, so the Oilers will have $26.5 million of their cap space tied up in two guys for the 25-26 season. Even if the Cap goes up to something in the $92-94 million range for that season, they'll have well over a quarter of their cap tied up in two players. I mean, it's a way to go I guess.
McDavid has this year and next at $12.5 million. So next year depending on how much the cap increases above the current $88 million, McDavid, Draisaitl and Nurse will take up about 40% of the cap. And Nurse is signed for 5 years after this at $9.25 million. A buyout won’t save them much except for the first year, he has bonus payouts in each of the last 4 years. So if they buy him out next summer, they’ll save almost $9 million in 25-26 and almost $1 million in 26-27. But then they only save $160k for the next 3 years and carry a little over $1 million in dead cap through 34-35.
I really don't think they will barring Stuart Skinner becoming a much more consistently reliable goaltender.
Wait till Evan Bouchard gets paid...I could see him easily surpassing Nurse and that will essentially be the new Core 4 Leafs-like saga only worse in Edmonton.
Bouchard is already on a bridge deal at $3.9 million. If they don’t lock him up before the contract expires, someone will sign him to an offer sheet and force their hand.
Core 4 and one of them is Nurse? HOT pass. They've still got north of $10 million a season tied up in the Nuge and Hyman for multiple years as well. At least Hyman is producing. I guess it boils down to whether or not you can win if you have two, two-man forward lines and one defense pairing with everything else filled in with whatever stuff you turn up between the cushions couch surfing the rest of the league. There won't be a cast-off scallywag on a behavior related discount that won't land in Edmonton*. Have fun with that.
They have Hyman at $5.5 million until 2028 and RNH at $5.125 million until 2029. Hyman has a NMC this season and next, a 8 team trade list in 26-27 and a 10 team trade list in 27-28. RNH has a full NMC each year.
Definitely earned the USHHOF honor. Matt Cullen's name is on the Stanley Cup 3 times, once with the Hurricanes and twice with the Pens. Nice guy too. His kick in the shootout fooled a lot of goaltenders.
Yeah, it was gonna look generic no matter what, but one of their logos would have been a more consistent statement on their uniforms than the lettering. And oh yeah, congrats on the Carolina Panthers of it all.Utah has released their home uniform.
My reaction: Eh. I guess. Color me underwhelmed. I think they should replace the diagonal UTAH with the circle logo that you see below.
Better than just the letting, yes.Someone suggested using the inaugural patch as the front crest. Which is a pretty good idear.
