Insider reveals details of what Darnell Nurse's lofty new contract will look like in Edmonton
The Edmonton Oilers have been a very active team this offseason, overhauling their blue line by acquiring veteran Duncan Keith, trading Ethan Bear, re-signing Tyson Barrie, inking UFA Cody Ceci and adding some nice complimentary pieces up front in Zach Hyman and Warren Foegele.
The Oilers are currently about $1.5M over the salary cap, but with defenseman Oskar Klefbom and his $4.167M likely to spend the season on LTIR, the Oilers appear to be in good shape with a full compliment of players and only youngster Kailer Yamamoto in need of a new deal for this season.
With the Oilers positioned nicely for next next few years, they do have at least one major piece coming due for a new contract at the conclusion of the upcoming season with defenseman Darnell Nurse set to become a UFA next summer.
On a recent edition of the 31 Thoughts Podcast, Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman had indicated that the two sides were grinding away trying to strike a long-term, huge money deal. According to Friedman, Nurse is in line to earn Dougie Hamilton, Seth Jones money, at around $9M over 8 seasons.
Certainly a rich deal for the 26-year-old, who is coming off of the best statistical season of his career, posting 36 points in 56 games for the Oilers in 2020-21. 16 of those points happened to be goals, besting his previous career-high of 10 goals back in 2018-19.
The defensemen are continuing to cash in with lofty new deals this year. There certainly appears to be a precedent set for the type of term and money it takes to lock guys up through - and even after - their prime years.
| G | A | PTS | ||
| Jesper Boqvist | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Pierre-Luc Dubois | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Connor Bedard | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Matthew Tkachuk | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Logan Cooley | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Conor Garland | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Eetu Luostarinen | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Ilya Mikheyev | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Frank Nazar | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Juuso Parssinen | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Sam Reinhart | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Aleksander Barkov | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Tyler Bertuzzi | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Colton Dach | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Gustav Forsling | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Quinn Hughes | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Seth Jones | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Clayton Keller | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Anton Lundell | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Connor McMichael | - | 1 | 1 | |
| Complete stats | ||||
| STANDINGS 2024-2025 | ||||||
TOP 10 | GP | W | L | OL | PTS | |
Golden Knights | 40 | 28 | 9 | 3 | 59 | |
Capitals | 41 | 27 | 10 | 4 | 58 | |
Jets | 42 | 28 | 12 | 2 | 58 | |
Wild | 41 | 26 | 11 | 4 | 56 | |
Maple Leafs | 42 | 27 | 13 | 2 | 56 | |
Oilers | 40 | 25 | 12 | 3 | 53 | |
Devils | 43 | 25 | 15 | 3 | 53 | |
Panthers | 42 | 25 | 15 | 2 | 52 | |
Kings | 38 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 51 | |
Stars | 39 | 25 | 13 | 1 | 51 | |
| Conference | Cumulative | ||||||