What I'm Hearing: Latest Rumblings as Oilers Prepare for Free Agency
With cap space tight and Darnell Nurse's future uncertain, Edmonton pivots toward depth scoring targets like Ilya Mikheyev while scouring the goalie market for a reliable partner.
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All right, here we go.
A yay or nay.
Is this year's UFA class one of the worst in the past decade?
It's probably- Sorry, everyone a yay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean- Just a little light, a little older.
Alex Tuck's interesting.
There's a couple of guys that are interesting, but it's, it's just starting to get that way where teams are resigning guys before they actually get to market, and that's, I mean, that's just smart business.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was putting together our top 10, yesterday, Katie, and at the time we had Tuck, one, and Radish, two.
So now Radish is gone, but in that top 10 you've got some names there that in other years wouldn't even crack your top 20.
Like, we're talking- Mm-hmm like Bobby McMahon was in our top 10, and I'm thinking like, Bobby McMahon should never be in a top 10.
I don't, I don't care what the list is.
It's like- Top 10 Colgate, Raiders now in the NHL.
Okay, maybe.
Yeah.
But yeah.
Very.
It, it's not a top-heavy, UFA class.
It's not even a particularly deep one, but, uh-
