Keith traded from Hawks to Oilers

[yave1964]

    Duncan Keith severed his 16 year run with the Hawks today traded to the Oilers for a 3rd round pick and semi-prospect Caleb Jones.

 

  This is probably a sign that the Hawks plan on making a run at Calebs older brother Seth Jones who has requested a trade from the Jackets.

 

   Keith coming to Edmonton might spell the end for Tyson Barrie who had a monster season for the Oilers running the power play with McDavid and Draisatl.  So yeah, lots of ripples from this one deal may occur.

[yave1964]

OOOOH and one more thing the Hawks managed to do this deal and not retain any salary off the final two years of Keiths deal which supposedly was a sticking point. Surprised that Edmonton did not insist on cap relief coming back or if not, at least waiting until after the expansion draft

[Math]

Anaheim, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Seattle could have been other suitable landing spots for Keith, but apparently Edmonton was the only option to keep Keith's wife as far as possible from Patrick Sharp. 

[OccamsRazor]

53 minutes ago, yave1964 said:

OOOOH and one more thing the Hawks managed to do this deal and not retain any salary off the final two years of Keiths deal which supposedly was a sticking point. Surprised that Edmonton did not insist on cap relief coming back or if not, at least waiting until after the expansion draft

 

This looks like the Oilers got bent over on this deal.

 

Is there something going on to this that I don't see?

 

 

As JR stated the Black Hawks has zero leverage in this deal.

 

#headscratcher

[J0e Th0rnton]

Unless Keith morphs back to his form from a decade ago, wtf? Lol