Tuesday\u2019s edition of Insider Trading<\/a>. \u201cThe name of Nic Roy has been out there\u2026 the Oilers do covet the kind of attributes that Nic Roy has, although I\u2019m told they have not yet made a trade offer to the Toronto Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n\u201cIf not him, there\u2019s a bigger name out there, Brayden Schenn\u2026 The Blues would have to retain salary for that to ever make sense for Edmonton.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nic Roy has been a name that\u2019s been getting a bit louder in recent days. The 29-year-old right-shot centre has five goals and 20 points in 58 games this season and carries a $3-million cap hit through next season. He isn\u2019t the most productive forward, but it sounds like the Oilers are looking for a grittier presence in their bottom-six.<\/p>\n
If Edmonton can find a way to dump Andrew Mangiapane\u2019s salary, they could easily fit Roy in his place.<\/p>\n
The mention of Brayden Schenn is a new one in terms of a connection to Edmonton. The St. Louis Blues captain was heavily involved in trade rumours last season, but managed to stay put. With St. Louis floundering near the bottom of the standings, it may be time for the two sides to finally part ways.<\/p>\n
There are some red flags when it comes to acquiring Schenn, who is set to turn 35 this summer and carries a hefty cap hit of $6.5 million through the next two seasons. On top of that, his production has fallen off a cliff this season with 13 goals and 25 points through 60 games. Although he did have a 50-point campaign last season.<\/p>\n
Dumping Mangiapane would not be enough to clear up room, meaning St. Louis would need to retain some salary as well. This would almost certainly bump up the acquisition cost for the Oilers.<\/p>\n
Both players present some amount of risk, but the Oilers seem deadset on bolstering their bottom-six ahead of the deadline. It won\u2019t be long now until we find out what Bowman has up his sleeve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It sounds like Edmonton Oilers GM Stan Bowman is working the phones hard ahead of Friday\u2019s trade deadline.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":{"0":"post-514263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-edmonton"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}