also went to the team<\/a> to seek out a trade. Although he has a full no-movement clause, seeking out a move means he’s got control over where he can be traded. <\/p>\nNurse gave the Oilers a list of 3-5 teams he’d like to be traded to, and while a limited number of suitors hurts Edmonton’s ability to move him, his salary-cap hit is also a sizable problem. He carries a 9.25 million cap hit for the next four seasons, which means the Oilers would almost certainly have to retain some salary to facilitate a deal. <\/p>\n
Despite everything working against a trade, Nurse is a solid defender who’s most stung by his cap number. If he produced at a lower number the way he does, the chatter about him online, and perhaps in Edmonton, might not be so loud. He’s capable, and on another team in a quieter situation, he might bring the best out of him.<\/p>\n
But where does Nurse go? That’s what we’re out to explore for you today using reports, rumors, and our own gut instinct. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darnell Nurse’s time with the Edmonton Oilers is apparently coming to an end. Sportsnet reported that not only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-732050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}