{"id":771958,"date":"2026-06-30T22:08:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771958\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:08:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:08:29","slug":"edmonton-oilers-interested-in-nurse-trade-involving-bruins-defenceman-report-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/771958\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers interested in Nurse trade involving Bruins defenceman: report | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are the Edmonton Oilers inching closer to a Darnell Nurse trade?<\/p>\n

The clock is ticking for the Oilers to get this done before free agency opens on Wednesday. Reports earlier this week<\/a> have indicated that things have reached a bit of a standstill as Edmonton tries to get Nurse to expand his trade list.<\/p>\n

One of the teams on his list is the Boston Bruins, who have a player the Oilers are reportedly interested in acquiring in any potential Nurse trade.<\/p>\n

According to The Boston Globe\u2019s Kevin Paul Dupont, Edmonton was open to trading Nurse to the Bruins in exchange for a certain Bruins defenceman at last week\u2019s draft.<\/p>\n

\u201cMurmurings during draft weekend out of [Edmonton] that Oil could be down for a Nurse-Lohrei swap, with Oil willing to \u2018share\u2019 the difference in AAVs (approx $6M spread),\u201d Dupont wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could see Bruins moving from Lohrei\u2019s $3.2M AAV to something around $6.5M AAV for Nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murmurings during draft weekend out of EDM that Oil could be down for a Nurse-Lohrei swap, with Oil willing to “share” the difference in AAVs (approx $6M spread).
I could see Bruins moving form Lohrei’s $3.2M AAV to something around $6.5M AAV for Nurse.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kevin Paul Dupont (@GlobeKPD) June 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Mason Lohrei is an interesting trade target for the Oilers, as he has had his fair share of struggles with the Boston Bruins this past season.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old left-shot defenceman is coming off a decent-enough offensive season with seven goals and 26 points through 73 games, but his defensive metrics have been less than stellar.<\/p>\n

According to Natural Stat Trick<\/a>, Lohrei has a 45.09 expected goals-for percentage (xGF%) and leaks quality chances against with a 44.21 high-danger chances-for percentage (HDCF%). This is all while he played in a third-pairing role for Boston, meaning his quality of competition was quite low compared to that of a top-four defenceman.<\/p>\n

HockeyStats.com<\/a> seems to corroborate this assessment, with his player card showing that he is a much more competent offensive defenceman, but that his offence doesn\u2019t outweigh his defensive insufficiencies.<\/p>\n

\"Lohrei-Oilers-stats\"<\/a><\/p>\n

HockeyStats.com<\/p>\n

There is, however, some potential that could make Lohrei a net positive for the Oilers, specifically from a cap perspective. He is entering the final year of his contract, carrying just a $3.2-million cap hit.<\/p>\n

According to Dupont, the Oilers would be willing to retain around $2.75 million on Nurse\u2019s $9.25-million cap hit for the remaining four years of his contract. That would put Edmonton\u2019s total cost for the trade around $5.95 million this upcoming season (retention and Lohrei cap hit), giving them around $3.3 million in savings this upcoming year.<\/p>\n

However, if the team opts to move on from Lohrei next summer, those savings would go up to around $6.5 million for the next three seasons. It\u2019s not the perfect cap dump, but it would provide some relief for the Oilers and give them a warm body that can jump directly onto the third pair.<\/p>\n

The issue with this situation is that Lohrei\u2019s recent play doesn\u2019t exactly inspire a lot of confidence, and it seems like his weaknesses were the precise thing that plagued the Oilers\u2019 blueline last season.<\/p>\n

Outside of the limited cap savings, it\u2019s hard to say that Edmonton would be a better team after making such a move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are the Edmonton Oilers inching closer to a Darnell Nurse trade? The clock is ticking for the Oilers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-771958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771958","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=771958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}