Oil Spills: A podcast on the Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Journal
February 19, 20190 min
Hockey
Trade deadline approaches with Edmonton Oilers in sell mode
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Episode Notes
The Edmonton Oilers are indeed sellers for the 2019 NHL trade deadline coming up on Feb. 25. They dealt goalie Cam Talbot to the Philadelphia Flyers for Anthony Stolarz in order to clear salary cap room for defenceman Andrej Sekera, who returned to the Oilers lineup from injury. But can the Oilers under interim general manager Keith Gretzky reasonably do much else besides give players away for middling draft picks to try to clear salary off the books? Other questions: should Gretzky — brother of the Great One, Wayne — be seriously considered to become the permanent GM of the Oilers? And it’s unlikely Ken Hitchcock will be back next season as head coach — what sort of coach should the Oilers target this time around?