Oiler Rumours

With the Craig Conroy deal done yesterday (Monday), it seems to me, we're only moments away from Kevin Lowe making one of his one-upmanship moves to acquire new talent for the Oilers. Lowe, who has a history of doing deals purely out of spite of the Flames organization, should be pulling the trigger on something pretty big in the near future.

Personally, I'm kinda tired of all the hype that has been surrounding all these potential trades for future unrestricted free agents, but it's the nature of the beast. Darcy Tucker, Rob Blake, Brad Stuart... just three names (all pool related) that have floated through the webpages and newspapers in the last few weeks, all having the Oilers attached to them somehow.

At last count, the Oilers should still have some room left to manuevre under the cap and they'll have to do something to keep themselves in contention for a playoff spot. The $50,000 question though is... at what cost? There will be some picks moved... possibly a quality prospect, depending on how many other teams want to jump in on the sweepstakes for a player like Rob Blake, whom the Oilers are in desperate need of.

I would imagine a guy like Robbie Schremp would come up a lot if talks are progressing as one might assume and for the Oilers... I would say that Schremp has a snowball's chance in hell of making into MacT's system of play and would be more suited to play in the Eastern Conference, which could spell a deal with Boston for Brad Stuart.

TSN has Senators' defenseman, Joe Corvo, listed as a possibility for the Oilers for players like Joffrey Lupul or Raffi Torres. Lupul for Corvo could be an interesting pool development, for all of those still invested in a guy like Lupul. With Spezza relegated off the Heatley & Alfredsson line, I would imagine that would be a mighty fine fit.

I'm fairly confident Kevin Lowe is going to sell the farm this month... but is it necessarily going to be to the highest bidder?

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