[Proposal] OEL, Grabner to Vancouver for Gaudette, Stetcher, Virtanen, Ericksson and Juolevi

[Odjick the Warrior]

5 hours ago, Chickenspear said:

Can't trade Tanev and Marky's rights, as they're UFAs

Of course you can, all the time teams trade the rights of a pending UFA to a team that is interested in signing them for a low draft pick

[Odjick the Warrior]

9 hours ago, BigTramFan said:

Do you know why the Coyotes want to move on from OEL? It's not because he's a bad player.

 

The ONLY reason is that they are in cap hell next season. They have only $1.1m in cap space and need to sign another 6 players. They desperately need to shed cap.

 

With the above pieces you propose sending to Arizona they are taking on about $13-14m in cap.

 

And they would be losing only $11.6m trading OEL + Grabner.

 

They won't do this deal.

 

OEL is available but they will be wanting picks and high end prospects in return!

I am thinking they want to move on from his 6 year contract as the ownership isn’t exactly loaded with cash and they may want picks and prospects that are high end but not many teams can take on a 6 year contract of over $8 million cap hit per year. Arizona takes those players from the Canucks to remake their 2nd and 3rd lines and have 2 possible top 4 defenseman in Stetcher and Juolevi in the future at cheap contract price. Arizona has done these type of deals in the past with one of their best players as that is how they got Stefan and Raanta. 

[qwijibo]

18 minutes ago, IjustNEEDaTROYgamble said:

Of course you can, all the time teams trade the rights of a pending UFA to a team that is interested in signing them for a low draft pick

It’s actually been pretty rare the last several years. And now picks conditional on the player signing aren’t allowed. So we’ll likely see it even less