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What Edmonton Oilers should do in Free Agency

The Edmonton Oilers must improve their team in free agency if they are to be a legit contender in the Western Conference. These are the moves the Edmonton Oilers should make in free agency.



Before the Free Agency period, they need to first move some players that might be exposed for the expansion draft.

One of the players that could be in danger of being drafted by Seattle is Adam Larsson, who also happens to be a UFA. Adam Larsson is too important to the Oilers for them to lose him for nothing in the expansion draft, so they should move him beforehand.

Edmonton Oilers trade Adam Larsson to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Alexandre Texier, 2nd round pick '22. 

This is a trade that works out great for both teams because the Blue Jackets get a top 4 Right Handed defenseman, while the Oilers get a young forward in Alexandre Texier, who has top 6 potential and a 2nd round pick.


Edmonton Oilers lose Ethan Bear to the Seattle Kraken in the expansion draft.


Before heading into free agency, they need to re-sign a few players, however, they will first need to clear some cap room.


Edmonton Oilers buyout James Neal; the Buyout will cost an annual cap hit of 1.9 million until 2025.

The Buyout saves the Oilers 3.85 million in cap space.


The Oilers also buy out Mikko Koskinen, the buyout will cost an annual cap hit of 1.5 million until 2023. The Buyout saves the Oilers 3 million in cap space


After the buyouts, the Oilers now have 18.38 million in cap space.


Edmonton Oilers have two key UFAs to re-sign: Tyson Barrie, and Slatter Koekkoek.

Tyler Ennis, Patrik Russell, Dmitry Kulikov, and are also UFAs but are not re-signed.

Mike Smith was also a UFA but is not brought back.


Edmonton also has a few RFAs to re-sign: Alexandre Texier, Kailer Yamamoto, Juhar Khaira.

Dominik Kahun is don't qualified.


Edmonton Oilers re-sign a few players:

Tyson Barrie-3yrs/5M per

Kailer Yamamoto-2yrs/2.5M per

Alexandre Texier-2yrs/1.75M per

Jujhar Khaira-3yrs/1.6M per

Slatter Koekkoek-1yr/850k


After re-signing these players, the Oilers need to sign a starting goalie.

The Oilers have 6.68 million in cap space left to sign a goalie, so they will need to make a trade to free up cap space.


The player they should trade is Kyle Turris because he is being paid 1.65 million but was basically as spare by the end of last season.

Edmonton Oilers trade Kyle Turris to the Buffalo Sabres for a 2021 6th round pick.

The Oilers free up 1.65 million in cap space, while the Sabres get a solid 4th line center in Kyle Turris.


After the Turris trade, the Edmonton Oilers have 8.33 million in cap space to spend on a starting goalie.


The Goalie that the Oilers should go after is Linus Ullmark; despite playing on the worst team in the league last season, he still put up a 9-6 record with a 2.63 GAA and .917 SV%.

Edmonton Oilers sign Linus Ullmark to a 5 yr deal worth 4 million per season in free agency; Linus Ullmark should help stabilize the goalie situation in goal.


Edmonton Oilers need to add some depth players to help out their roster.


Edmonton Oilers sign a few players in Free Agency:

Kevan Miller-2yr/1.3M per

Derrick Brassard-1yr/1M

Alex Galchenyuk-1yr/1M

Luke Schenn-1yr/700k


This is how the Edmonton Oilers look like after all the moves




2021-22 Edmonton Oilers

L.Draisaitl-C.McDavid-J.Puljujarvi

A.Galchenyuk-R.Nugent-Hopkins-K.Yamamoto

A.Texier-D.Holloway-Z.Kassian

J.Khaira-D.Brassard-J.Archibald

D.Nurse-T.Barrie

D.Keith-E.Bouchard

K.Russell-K.Miller

L.Ullmark

A.Stalock

Spares: R.McLeod, D.Shore, S.Koekkoek, L.Schenn


The Edmonton Oilers have assembled a much deeper team, and look poised to make a deeper playoff run.



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