Ken Holland just provided us with the best trade deadline we’ve seen since 2006. He managed to add some great pieces to the Edmonton Oilers without adding a lot of cap space or surrendering key pieces in trade like Jesse Puljujarvi or our 1st round pick this year.
Trade #1 – Andreas Athanasiou and Ryan Kuffner from Detroit in exchange for the Oilers 2nd round picks in 2020 and 2021 as well as Sam Gagner to even out the cap space with the Oilers retaining 315K of Gagner’s cap hit
Solution: Long term
Athanasiou is an RFA after this season, and at 25 has just entered his prime producing years.