Instead of being paralyzed by their cap crunch, as teams very seldom are, the Oilers have added a forward rather than trading away all their players to match the offer sheets signed by Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg.

Vasily Podkolzin is a 23-year-old RW with a cap hit of $1 million this year and next. Acquiring him implies that either the Oilers aren't matching on Holloway, or they wish to trade some other forward to make their ultimate in-season cap situation more reasonable.

Late last night they started on easing the overall cap situation by moving Cody Ceci to the Sharks for Ty Emberson, a 24-year-old defender with one year of NHL games on the Sharks. Ceci has only one year on his $3.5 million contract, so forecasts that it was going to be extremely expensive to move him were a bit overstated, even though the Oilers are in need to sell mode, so the price goes up.

The Oilers have to match by Tuesday but they do not need to clear cap space before that.

On to other news:

Landeskog could return ‘near the start’ of season for Avalanche, coach says | NHL.com
Forward has not played past 2 seasons because of knee injury
NHL logoTom Gulitti
Powell has overcome hearing impairment to become high-scoring Flyers prospect | NHL.com
Forward impresses on ice with ability, away from rink as role model, advocate
NHL logoAdam Kimelman
Former NHLer Brandon Prust talks hockey ahead of his first season coaching the GOJHL’s London Nationals
Prust spent 10 seasons in the NHL, playing nearly 500 games and recording more than 1,000 penalty minutes.
Daily FaceoffHunter Crowther

The Nationals are the "farm" team of the Knights.

Good article that takes what Brad Treliving said on the radio and covers what he could reasonably do in the next few weeks (nothing terribly exciting):

https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/toronto-maple-leafs/latest-news/were-not-set-yet-is-brad-treliving-done-making-moves-before-maple-leafs-training-camp-opens-next-month

And that's enough for a Monday. The T25 is back today with number 17, a brand new member of the team.

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