Going into July 1st, the Oilers had roughly 8.3 million dollars in cap space. With the team needing to address holes on the wing, centre, defense, and between the pipes…. simply put that wasn’t going to be able to get done with that little cap space. The buyout of Andrej Sekera announced on Sunday may help to open things up.
A week ago I took a look at some potential buyout candidates for the Edmonton Oilers, and at the time I noted that buying out Andrej Sekera wasn’t the worst idea, providing the team had something specific they could accomplish with the space freed up.