According to Elliotte Friedman, the Oilers have acquired defenceman Mattias Ekholm from the Nashville Predators. Heading back to Nashville will be Tyson Barrie, 2022 first-round pick Reid Schaefer, and Edmonton’s first- and fourth-round picks in the 2023 draft…
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Barrie had been a big part of the team. Disappointed they traded him.
necessary evil moving Barrie. his 4.5 and Puljujarvi's 3 gave us 8 mil, which we used 6 to get Ekholm. now we have 2 mil left.
As a Nashville fan I'm sorry for stealing from y'all but I love it
There is going to be more to this trade then we realize. Barrie gone and karlsson in
That’s way too much for that player! Way too much! Schafer damn it. And Barrie was our PP guy
Puck moving d-man
Love this trade, but Barrie going the other way I highly disagree with. I don’t wanna be one of those “make a trade, but I hate the trade you made” but Barrie?? I’d rather Ceci, and then thrown in a 3rd if it doesn’t have enough value, and get more salary retained. At this point you gotta trade Yamo for chychrun?
Ken got pocket picked…. Sad…. Good bye PP and Schafer
Barrie is good offensively, but lacked defensively. Oilers needed more defence. This is Good, anything that gives nurse less minutes is good.
🎶🇨🇦🤣
Thankyou Holland 🤣🇨🇦
We still have a few days🤣🤣🤣
We have turned the corner baby😁🇨🇦
Thankyou leafs for our glue😁✔
Oil lose their QB on the powerplay and are now short 1 right-handed defenseman. They also give up two 1st round picks. I don't think this was a good deal.
For the trade I think Nashville should of at least had to retain 1.25M….
We have one top d-man plus a much better shot to win the my cup
Tyson Barrie because of the cap.
Because nobody wants Nurse
Money had to go out and you can't expect teams to take players we don't want/need. Any you guys freaking out its Barrie haven't been paying attention since Barrie has always been the one to go since the Oilers do not need more offense.
The Oilers could still make Chychrun work. I’m just not sold after seeing the McCabe deal that Arizona isn’t willing to retain money……
To ARZ:
Warren Foegele $2,750,000
Evan Bouchard $833,333
2025 1st RD Pick
2026 3rd RD Pick
2024 6th RD Pick (Nashville)
$3,583,333 Cap Hit
To EDM:
Jacob Chychrun $4,600,000
40% Retained $2,760,000
Nick Bjugstad $900,000
$3,660,000 Cap Hit
Didn’t think Kenny Money had it in him
Almost all the experts say this trade gives Edmonton more of what they need. Barrie was offence but not defense and the numbers are actually similar with him on and off the PP the past few years (shockingly).
Tyson Barrie was big for us… 😕
After all of Holland's critics, he was patient and hit 2 home runs. Getting rid of 100% of Jesse's contract without having to send anything else to convince someone to take him is massive. And Ekholm is 100% the right choice over Chycrun. Ekholm has missed 20 games for injury in his 719 game career, Chycrun is injury prone and not as good defensively as Ekholm, and defense is what we need. Sad to see Barrie go, but we don't need him and Bouchard, and we needed to move the contract to make this possible so it is the way it is – Bouchard's the new PP guy now.
Couple more small moves and we're ready for the run! GO OIL!
Why are you guys stunned? This makes 100% perfect sense – Bouchard and Barrie are redundant – Barrie was good on the PP, but his contract allows this deal to happen and Ekholm will hopefully have a Duncan Keith effect and stabilize the blue line
This trade made me cry!!!
Go Preds!!!!
This aged well…
Hindsight is always 20/20 😂
Best deal of the deadline
How good does this trade look now ??? 😊
Memba