PuckPedia's Hart Levine (7/2/26)
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Hello, Hart. How are you doing? I'm worn out. Busy couple days. Three days. All right. So you've got your own podcast. Do you do one every day now?
No, we do two episodes a week. I do one, and we have a guest on the other one. Okay.
Okay.
Well, what did you think? And just if you go to your website at this time, you're saying that the Oilers have $7.25 million in projected cap space. That includes with Isaac Howard and Josh Szymanski being up and not factoring in a price point on Colton Dock. and that includes six defensemen with both Stashny and Muckamadoulin as restricted free agents and all three goaltenders. Suffice to say, and Stan Bowman just said on the show here that he'd be completely comfortable starting the year with these forwards. The owners won't be adding to goal. They won't be adding to defense. In fact, logic dictates they may move a defenseman out here, I think, at some point. But owners are in a different situation this year than they've been in the last few years.
Is that fair?
Oh, yeah. I mean, the last few years they've been so tight to the cap, potentially using LTIR. And, you know, when July 1 does settle, they're basically done for the most part. They look to me like there's still another move to make, right? Because... Even if they sign those RFAs, that would be too many players on the active roster. So some of these players that we kind of consider NHL players would potentially be sent down. And also, I think Stan Bowman has word that he wants to go into the season with some cap space, but signing those RFAs, they'd be left with $4 or $5 million. I think ideally they'd like to use some of that to add in the summer. Because if you go into the season, let's say with...
Two million in space. By the time you get to the trade deadline, you could add almost a $10 million player. So two million of cap space to start the year could be really valuable. Even a million would be very valuable. So they could still spend some more and meet that objective of going into the season with some space.
All right, now I know a lot of people are asking me about Claude Giroux, and I talked about the fact that, you know, in a perfect world, the owners would maybe get a guy that could take some draws. There ain't anybody in the league better than him. He's 61%, 63% over the last couple of years. I have had some people suggest to me that Philadelphia – And Ottawa definitely in on Giroux. Of course, he's played in those two cities. It would not surprise me if Edmonton was trying to work its way into the mix as well.
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