Someone mentioned that Ekholm could potentially sign a team friendly deal at age 36 instead of the 8.5AAV in this scenario, but I wanted to account for mismanagement and make it as difficult as possible.
I offered Rantanen $12.4M over 5 years to join the Oilers with McDavid locked in on a $20.8M deal. Made the tough call to let Stu Skinner, Henrique & Jeff Skinner walk—allowing us to reallocate the extra cap room to Rantanen’s 5‑year deferred deal. More: https://t.co/RywDK17Vp8
Kept our long-tenured core—Nurse, Nugent-Hopkins, Bouchard, Ekholm & Hyman—anchoring the team and added fresh depth with prospects like Michael Andersson and Jordan Beaulieu.
The result is a balanced, cap-compliant roster.
The link to this is now broke because I don’t know how to use ChatGPT. You’ll have to go to the Rantanen link and scroll back to see how I re-signed McDavid.
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