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The Oilers have sent Ryan Strome to the Rangers for Ryan Spooner
NYR announce they’ve traded for Ryan Strome for Ryan Spooner
— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) November 16, 2018
Ryan Strome got off to a bit of a rough start this year after signing his new contract. He put up just two points in 18 games, earning the name Offense Killer from your’s truly.
Ryan Spooner is a 26-year-old Center who so far this year also has only two points. However, his past production looks a little but more promising than Ryan Strome’s.
I don’t know a lot about Spooner, so this is going to be a bit of an evaluation period for the first few games. Interestingly, he has a Four Million Dollar cap hit through next season, it will be interesting to see how that affects the Oilers who are already over the cap.
Update:
NYR retain $900K of Spooner’s salary.
— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) November 16, 2018
Looks like an equal cap hit to Strome now.
As far as One-for-One deals go, this looks a lot more promising than the others.
The #letsgooilers traded Strome for Spooner
— PuckPedia (@PuckPedia) November 16, 2018
Spooner has 2 points in 16 games, was on ice for 40% of 5v5 Goals, 44.7% of Expected Goals & 39.3% Corsi. Expected Goals & Corsi were 7.6% & 7.6% lower relative to teammates. He had 41 Points last year. https://t.co/lltTciD1qi pic.twitter.com/3Mv9FeE5kb