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What MacTavish SHOULD do this summer: Part 1

The past couple days I wrote 2 blogs talking about what the lines would be in Edmonton if MacTavish was done making moves for the summer. Now here's what I think MacTavish should do to make the bottom 6 better and more experienced.

The lines going into next season look pretty much like this right now.....

Hall - Nuge - Eberle

Perron - Gagner - Yakupov

Joensuu - Gordan - Jones

Acton - Lander - Hamilton

ex. Smyth, Brown

This bottom six looks bad giving that Joensuu and Jones should are 4th line wingers not 3rd line wingers and Acton and Hamilton aren't NHL quality. So if MacTavish wants to optimize the teams potential he has to find 2 new 3rd line wingers.

MacTavish has to tred carefully though if he goes out to find new 3rd line wingers because Edmonton's only has something like 1.5 million in cap space and they already have 48 out of the allowed 50 contracts. So if he goes the free agent route he has to be careful.

So who could MacTavish target? Stephan from NYR? Tootoo from Detroit? Sign Boyd? I like the idea of Tootoo and Stephan because Stephan is young and could fit into the young core of the team and he also plays a good 2 way game. I like the idea of Tootoo because he's an arrogant, stupid, annoying idiot. Exactly the type of agitator you want on your team. He's also not terrible at hockey.

So if the Oilers were to target Stephan and Tootoo what would they have to give up? It would be easy for the Oilers to get Tootoo because Detroit needs another defense and Edmonton could trade them N Schultz or Smid for Tootoo.

Stephan would be a bit harder to get because hes a young presence with lots of upside. Hemsky will be in the deal because we have to get rid of him but he's not enough to get Stephan from New York. What else could we give them? Maybe Smid or N Schultz (dependant on who they trade for Tootoo)? That's a bit too much but maybe Hemsky and Smid/Schultz for Stephan and a 2nd/3rd? Do you think NY would bite?

So if Edmonton trades for these 2 their lines would be.....

Hall - Nuge - Eberle

Perron - Gagner - Yakupov

Stephan - Gordan - Tootoo

Joensuu - Lander - Jones

ex. Smyth, Brown

I like these lines. You have some grit and annoyance with Tootoo and Joensuu and some good 2 way play with Stephan and Jones. I like it, do you?

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