Two More Edmonton Oilers Bison King Trades
By Phil Gretzky
Going back to this same article, they mentioned that St. Louis and Tampa Bay also responded back to Ken Holland’s shopping of Puljujarvi, but it sounds like neither team is ready to give up anything significant, certainly not to anyone who’s as much of a game changer as Shayne Gostisbehere or Anthony Duclair.
The name Noel Acciari was bandied about, but as you can see he’s not exactly an impact player. St. Louis has struggled this season in part because they’ve had issues with injuries. Acciari is currently their second-line center but only because Ryan O’Reilly is injured.
Acciari reminds me of Alex Chiasson, he put up 20 goals once and has dropped off the map since then. I would consider a trade like this only as a last resort – if you can get better players in trade for JP, why would you trade for a player as vanilla as Acciari?
As for Tampa Bay, they’re having cap issues as well so it’ll have to be a dollar in, dollar out. In this price range, I don’t see a lot of guys I’d want back.
I doubt they’d want to part with Alex Killorn, and Nick Paul and Vladislav Namestnikov are rather vanilla players. Would you want decent bottom six players in return such as Corey Perry or re-acquiring Patrick Maroon? Perhaps, but I guarantee you they’ll make the Oilers retain the salary on JP so I’m not sure that would be worth it.
On D for Tampa, it’s a similar story. I highly doubt we’d want 33-year-old Ian Cole back when Brett Kulak is already performing the same job for $250,000 less and four years Cole’s junior. I doubt they’re interested in parting with Erik Cernak considering that he was signed to an extension at $5.2 million a season starting next year. The names below in terms of salary on D for the Lightning are all fairly unimpressive and again they’d probably ask us to retain the salary on JP were we to trade for any of them.
We don’t need a goaltender and they probably won’t send us one anyway.