SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET !

SHELDON SOURAY
he's ours !

http://oilers.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=332587

Free Agents

The Guys !

Greene
Garon
Torres

The Oiler's have been busy this past week first adding Tarnstrom, and Grebeshkov, and then trading for the pre-mentioned Pitkanen, and Sanderson. They were not done, while attempting to sign Michael Nylander, they got foiled when he renegged, and signed with Washington instead. This did not slow them down too much as they inked F.A. goalie Mathieu Garon, and then resigned Oiler's Torres, and Greene. They've spent 29 million out of their 45 million dollar budget, but they've yet to sign Pitkanen out of the new crop ! Joni should cost the team 2.5- 3 million a year , with Torres 2.25 m. that should add up to 34.25 million. Greene's $ has not been made public, but I'd guess 1 million per year. This leaves 10 million to spend, but the Oil usually leave some $5 m. in the bank for the trade dead-line playoff run. Expect a tier 2 aged sniper like Peter Bondra to sign this summer. He would be a reasonablly inexpensive replacement for the loss of Peter Sykora !
Pitkanen

Sanderson

Grebeshkov

Tarnstrom

Finally !!!

Pitkanen and Sanderson

The Oiler's signed U.F.A. Dick Tarstrom and F.A. Denis Grebeshkov, both defensemen, today. Then Kevin Lowe pulled the trigger on a great deal for the coveted puck moving defenseman Joni Pitkanen of the Philadelphia Flyers. They gave up rights to Jason Smith, and Joffrey Lupul, but they also aquired Geoff Sanderson and a 3rd round pick.

I breath a sigh of relief, and trust there will be more trades and signings to come, in order to make our team playoff bound next season.

The Oil would do well to resign Peter Sykora and then go after Robert Lang or Ladislav Nagy.

If they get that done, a trustworthy back-up goalie would be our last chore to back up Dwayne Roloson. Possibly Philippe Sauve or Scott Clemmensen.

Stay tuned this is heating up and getting exciting !