draft them all and then keep the ones that turn out to be the best and then use the others to make you better somewhere else. That's 65 million and a well balanced team. IMO they key to continuing to have a deep group even after the forwards get their pay day is to keep drafting well to get the cheap, young players. That gives teams a lot more options. We'd also have to get the core players to take discounts. wow that shows just how bad it is. Even if everything goes right we will be tight against the cap. Tavares signing for 5.5 per year gives me hope I suppose. Keeping Yakupov definitely creates a huge set of challenges for management, but of course the rewards are extreme since no team in the league could touch our top six in talent. This aspect of team building is the exact reason I don't like what Smyth is doing. We have the cap to pay him now but fighting for every last dime he can get is a bad influence on the young guns, who would command 7+ million as free agents. Basically, Glen Healy said that the Oilers should trade the pick because they will not be able to afford Hall, RNH, Eberle and Yakupov. And that the Oilers want Ryan Murray, which Elliot Friedman seemed to agree on. If it was coming from only Healy, I could care less what he thinks, but when Friedman says the same