Don’t let the Edmonton Oilers talk to Bruce Cassidy, fine, we’ll offer sheet Pavel Dorofeyev
The Sheet with Jeff Marek: Jeff Marek wonders if the Edmonton Oilers would kick up the feud with the Vegas Golden Kings and offer sheet the Golden Knights pending RFA forward Pavel Dorofeyev.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Marek: “I was thinking about this last night and this morning. I think there’s one way to take the chaos factor between the Edmonton Oilers and the Vegas Golden Knights one level higher.
Not that we need to necessarily reset the story here, but for everybody else who hasn’t been paying attention, I suppose the Vegas Golden Knights have denied the Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, as well …”
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Zack Phillips: “Withheld permission.”
Marek: “… from talking with him … withheld, yeah, they have not granted permission, withheld, not denied, however you want to frame it, they’ve denied permission right now to speak to Bruce Cassidy.
So there’s one way this can get worse, or more interesting, if you will, or more chaotic, might be the way. The Edmonton Oilers go out and get their first-round pick back from the San Jose Sharks and offer sheet Pavel Dorofeyev.
- Puck Pedia: “They don’t need their 2027 1st back from SJ. They could satisfy it by giving their 2028 and 2029 1sts. They would have to get their 2027 3rd back from Nashville, though.”
- Puck Pedia:
$9,551,333 – $11,939,166
- 2x 1st Round Pick (in next 3 drafts starting 2027)
- 2027 2nd Round Pick
- 2027 3rd Round Pick
Phillips: “Okay, I do kind of like this. I like the path you’re headed down
Marek: “Two first-round picks, the second and a third if the threshold is $11.9 (million). Maybe make that times two, and do we have a deal just to take this up to the next level.”
Matt Larkin: “I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a more perfect offer sheet setup than Pavel Dorofeyev’s.
- One of 12 players with 35+ goals each of the last two years
- 10 goals in 13 games in the playoffs
- Vegas has $4.625 million in cap space
- No team would invite less offer sheet sympathy”
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Marco D’Amico: “Pietrangelo’s LTIR and the offseason 10% temporary cap increase (which is a whopping 10.4M this year) will shield them from anything reasonable IMO … Trading goaltender Adin Hill would open up even more money.”
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