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Hot Links: Tuesday, October 13

All quiet in Edmonton yesterday while other Western teams made moves and got better. PLUS: revisiting the 2016/17 D group, the #Oilers roster today and how it affects their prospects, one more move, and MORE!

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Morning, folks!

Not much happened in Oilers land yesterday, with most of the biggest stories involving some of their Western rivals.

Welp. Pietrangelo is the goods, a Norris-caliber defender who joins the best team in the division looking to cement their position at the top:

Evolving-Hockey (@EvolvingHockey) | https://evolving-hockey.com/

But this move put the Vegas Golden Knights over the salary cap, so they had to make another one to get cap compliant before ‘registering’ the Pietrangelo deal:

Oof. If you’re Vancouver, you’ve got to love replacing Chris Tanev for Nate Schmidt at the cost of a third round pick. Sure, there’s something to be said for Vancouver being so willing to help a division rival get out of jail, but that’s a cut-rate price for a good player and it’s hard to hate taking advantage of it:

Evolving-Hockey (@EvolvingHockey) | https://evolving-hockey.com/

Two division rivals getting better yesterday. And the Colorado Avalanche — who are probably having the best off-season of anyone right now — swindled legitimate top four (two?) defender Devon Toews from the New York Islanders for two second-round picks. Oof.

Evolving-Hockey (@EvolvingHockey) | https://evolving-hockey.com/

With the Oilers apparently done, it pains me every time other teams do good things. There was a fair bit of that yesterday.


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