Edmonton Oilers Don't Match Offer Sheets, Let Broberg and Holloway Join St. Louis Blues
A week since the St. Louis Blues tendered offer sheets to two Edmonton Oilers youngsters, Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg are switching teams. But they also made a trade.
The Edmonton Oilers decided not to keep Philip Broberg and Dylan Holloway.
Both players are now part of the St. Louis Blues, which tendered offer sheets to them last week.
Edmonton had a week to decide whether to match the two-year contracts for each player – with a $4,580,917 average annual value for Broberg and a $2,290,457 AAV for Holloway.
The team made two trades on Sunday to make it possible to match the offers if Evander Kane also went on long-term injured reserve and another player with a $800,000 cap hit or more went to the AHL.
Instead, the Oilers will collect the Blues' second- and third-round picks in the 2025 NHL draft as compensation for both players.
Edmonton also announced it acquired the rights to unsigned prospect Paul Fischer and a 2028 third-round pick from the Blues for future considerations.
Broberg, a 23-year-old defenseman, has 81 games of NHL experience across three seasons with the Oilers, recording two goals and 11 assists for 13 points. Last season, the eight-overall pick in 2019 played 12 NHL games and got two assists, but he also appeared in 10 playoff games and had two goals and an assist.
Holloway, meanwhile, played 38 NHL games last season and got six goals and three assists for nine points. The 22-year-old forward has played 89 career games for Edmonton across two seasons since being drafted 14th overall in 2020 – he has nine goals and nine assists for 18 career points. But in the Oilers' run to the Stanley Cup final, Holloway had five goals and two assists for seven points in 25 games.
As for Edmonton's new addition, Fischer was a fifth-round pick, 138th overall, by the Blues in the 2023 NHL draft. The 19-year-old defenseman played his freshman season at the University of Notre Dame, logging two goals and 14 assists for 16 points in 34 games. Before that, Fischer played for the USA Hockey National Team Development Program and won a gold medal at the 2023 World Men's Under-18 tournament with an assist in seven games.
On Sunday, Edmonton first acquired forward Vasily Podkolzin from the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for a 2025 fourth-round pick originally belonging to the Ottawa Senators. They then traded defenseman Cody Ceci and a 2025 third-round pick to the San Jose Sharks for blueliner Ty Emberson.
Following the moves, the Blues now have a projected $467,792 in cap space, per PuckPedia, although that should increase once they assign at least two players to the minors at the beginning of the season.
The Oilers now have a projected $945,833 in cap space, which means if Evander Kane does miss the beginning of the season to recover from a reported surgery, the team doesn't have to place him on LTIR and can accrue cap space.
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