Oilers One of the best positioned CAP teams based on a new model – The hockey writers Edmonton Oilers Laatste Nieuws, Analysis and more

To be a real competition in today’s NHL, it is absolutely necessary that you limit the number of bad contracts in your schedule. Although essentially all 32 teams in the competition have at least one contract that is less than ideal, the General Managers (GMS) who are able to limit those kinds of contracts generally have more successful teams.

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The Edmonton Oilers certainly fit into the category of a number of great contracts in the books. For example, they had Leon Draisaitl, who for the past eight years had only committed $ 8.5 million, which played a major role in the reason why they were able to reach the two-Straight Stanley Cup final. That deal is now out of the books, although you will not find anyone on the planet who suggests his new deal Wears a cap -hit of $ 14 million Is too much payment.

Like every team, the oilers have a few contracts they could do without, but the bargain agreements have helped others that have to make that good to do. Although much of the fan base is aware of how well they are positioned from a general capper spectator, many fans of other teams may not pay that much attention. Fortunately, a new model of Athletics Helps to prove how well their management, both past and present, has done from the perspective of a salary limit.

Oilers are doing well in the rating of contract efficiency

After compiling a list of the top 10 worst contracts in the NHL recently, Dom Luszczyszyn from Athletics has now compiled an interesting column about how teams arrange in terms of contract efficiency. While the oilers are not at the top of the competition (which belongs to the lightning of Tampa Bay), they came in eighth place on the Luszczyszyn model. (From “Dom Luszczyszyn: NHL Contract Efficiency Rankings 2025: Which teams spend their money most wisely?” Athletics 08/06/25).

“No team has more A-class deals than the Oilers, who have six of their top three attackers (Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Zach Hyman) and their top three defenders (Evan Bouchard, Mattias Ekholm and Jake Walman),” Luszczyszyn wrote. “Add Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to the Mix and Edmonton gets a huge thing for his money from the core. That’s why the Oilers are back-to-back cup finalists.”

Luszczyszyn also said that if McDavid signs of $ 16.5.5 million per season in the empire, this will again be a discount in the city and a bargain contract for the oilers. See other names Like Hyman And Ryan Nugent-Hopkins appears as great deals as no surprise, given what they have provided in recent years.

Now it is worth mentioning that this is actually a worse, perhaps much worse than the oilers had a season ago. While Luszczyszyn admits The Darnell nurse contract hurts them In his model, the nurse was clearly still under the same contract when last year’s list was made. Now another deal that hurts them on the model is the eight years $ 30.8 million extension handed over to Trent Frederic Earlier this season outside the season. It is still to be seen how that deal admits, but it is clear that Luszczyszyn is not a big fan of it at the moment.

Luszczyszyn also mentions the fact that Deals of Ekholm and Walman, as well as Bouchard’s, who come from the books at the end of the 2025-26 campaign, damages the oilers in his model. Having the Nugent-Hopkins deal in four years and Hyman’s Up in Three played a role in those who also fell a year ago.

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A great determination in how from now on in a year will be in line in a year, will of course depend on the McDavid and Bouchard sign contracts, but it is difficult to imagine that both would get so much money that they would be seen if anything but a great contract on the Luszczzyn model. If this is something, this is a good memory of all fan bases and organizations that even with a bad contract or two in the books, you can still be an elite team, as long as you fill the rest of your schedule with great deals.