WTF ARE THE LA KINGS DOING? HUGE CODY CECI OVERPAY + EDMONTON OILERS GET A NEW GOALIE

WTF ARE THE LA KINGS DOING? HUGE CODY CECI OVERPAY + EDMONTON OILERS GET A NEW GOALIE

So, this is going to be a weird LA x Edmonton type of video because the LA Kings, I don’t know if y’all noticed, but they put in work today. This has actually been one of the more, dare I say, tame, lame free agencies that we have seen in a while because Brock Besser didn’t end up leaving. Mitch Marner got traded before free agency began. Brad Marshian stayed. Sam Bennett stayed. Aaron Eckblad stayed. A lot of the top guys ended up getting moved earlier or they just stayed. And Nick Eers didn’t even sign either. So, when it comes to some of the teams that made big splashes, like the LA Kings, for example, going the exact opposite route of the Edmonton Oilers, who by comparison didn’t really do much. They got their goalie, but that’s about it. This is absolutely hilarious because if you take a look at the LA Kings, you’ve got Mark Berseran cooking up a former Canadian storm signing Yoel Armia. 2 years, $2.5 million AAV. I actually like that contract a decent amount. I like Arma as a player. He’s 32 years old. Yes, he is a little bit older, but this is a guy who knows how to use his stick. He’s a strong penalty killer. He can produce points. Cory Perry gets a one-year $2 million deal in LA. So already, you know, that means that the LA Kings are going to head over to the Stanley Cup finals later in 2026. Anton Forsberg gets a $2.25 million AAV deal. So there you go. Some backup goalending support. I’m lukewarm on my confidence on Anton Forsber. But then you go into the big boys. What the hell happened here? Cody Cece, $4.5 million a year for 4 years. This guy’s 31 years old and he’s getting a 4.5. Who in the hell is his agent? Peter McTavish, you are the biggest bandit in the National Hockey League. How do you keep on doing this? How does Cody Cece always find a way to get these contracts? What in the world? This is one of the strangest players in NHL history just in terms of how he is on the ice and how much money he always seems to get. Forget Joel Edmonson from last year. Cody Cece is bringing the booms to the LA Kings and their salary cap. And then you have Brian Dumalan who had a 4-year deal, $4 million deal, excuse me, per season for 3 years. He’ll be 36 by the time this contract expires in 2028. What in the world are the LA Kings doing, man? They’re just throwing money at everybody. And not to say that our Mia or Perry aren’t good, capable players that aren’t going to contribute, but just the level of dollars. How in the hell are you going to be paying a D pairing of Dumlain and Cece $8 million a year for at the minimum the next three years? They could not have just kept Jordan Spence. Really, they had to go out there and get CeCe, who’s going to miss the net by a mile again upon given a pretty good scoring opportunity. This is absolutely hilarious for Edmonton Oilers fans who have been paying attention to their guys asking, “Hey, Ryan Mloud is worth so much money. He had signed in Buffalo. Cody Cece is worth $4.5 million a year now. How is this even possible? Thank goodness Kenny Holland and the LA Kings ended up acquiring these kinds of names. And thank goodness Stan Bowman didn’t do his part in keeping these guys and giving them that money to stay in Edmonton. This is Ken Holland hockey 2.0 baby bringing itself back up. But now we also have to talk about the contrary because the Edmonton Oilers on the other hand, they didn’t do much. The Kings did a lot. Edmonton didn’t do anything. They had signed Riley Stillman and Matt Tommpkins. That’s it. All their other contracts came yesterday with Casper Kaepern, Noah Philp, Evan Bousard, and then the Trent Frederick 8-year deal from a few days ago that everybody was going out there and talking smack about. But realistically, after Buchard and McDavid, there isn’t really much business this team needs to do. You have Riley Stillman, who’s brought in on a 2-year, $775,000 contract, and then you have Matt Tomkins, the goalie, the goalie of the future for Edmonton. Let’s start out with Stillman first though because I just got to say here I am saying this as a Vancouver Conucks fanboy who absolutely does not like the Oilers but who is a Vancouver Conucks fanboy. Riley Stillman may be the very worst defenseman I’d ever seen suit up in a Vancouver Conucks uniform the past decade. He was bad. Absolutely gobsmackingly out of this world. the other multiversal level terrible for the Vancouver Conucks who only was able to get a job with the Canucks because of the injuries that they had. This guy sucked. He was so bad in Vancouver. And I’m like super confident that if Vancouver had any sort of a competent decor, they would not have chosen Riley Stillman to have played 32 games for them in that season. This guy was a turnover machine. Defensively irresponsible. just totally totally in another world’s level of bad. I hate this guy. Okay, look, I’m being very harsh, but he is legitimately the worst Dman out of all of them that have suited up in the Vancouver Conucks uniform the past 10 years or so. You talk about the Lucas Speizas, you talk about the Gabbransson’s, you talk about the Noah Jewels, the Matt Barkowskis, all the other guys who were tweeners, Riley Stillman was worse than all of them. And so when he got traded to Buffalo, we made a very happy celebratory video. Oh my gosh, the Canucks actually traded Stillman. That’s crazy. Then he went over to the AHL, then had a season in Chicago and Carolina. He played five games with the Hurricanes there. Now he’s in Edmonton. So yeah, that’s pretty cool, I guess. Good on Riley Stillman for getting the contract. And then you also have Matt Tommpkins, the goalie of the future for the Edmonton Oilers, although we can probably doubt that that is going to be the case here. Yes, he is a goalie. Yes, he is an Edmonton. But no, he is probably not good enough to replace Stu Skinner or Cal Picker. He’s 31 years old. Hometown guy sticking around going back to Edmonton. So that’s cool. 64 192. A seventh round pick in the 12th 2012 draft, excuse me, by the Chicago Blackhawks. He played in the Syracuse Crunch system recently, 907 save percentage and 26 games played. That’s pretty good if I do say so myself. And he did have some cups of coffee with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2023 2024. His very first exposure to NHL games. 892 save percentage in six games is not great. Although he did go 500 in terms of winning and points. He was over 500 actually. What is that? Seven points in six games played. Yeah, he’s actually pretty good, not going to lie. But Matt Tommpkins will likely be heading over to Bakersfield, which is going to shake up the Oilers goalending system as a whole in a pretty interesting way. There are a bunch of dudes who are already under contract here. And then, of course, you’ve got Stu and Pickard who are going to be in that organization, too. This is totally going to open the door for some more movement around on that goalending depth chart just because you know the guarantee that some of these guys are going to be meaningful longerterm options that is not there. They’re both expiring in 2526. Stu Skinner and Picker, their contracts are expiring. So there might need to be some decisions made. But one thing’s for sure here, the Edmonton Oilers are not rushing into anything. They’re seeing their guys go in for expensive dollar amounts and they’re like, “Yeah, no. We’re not going to do that. We’re not going to pay Cody CC $4.5 million to stay. We’re just going to take our time with this. We’re going to acquire pieces late like they had done last year with Vasil Pod Coulson, for example. They don’t need to do these big flashy fancy moves.” And they’re kind of in a spot where they can just chillax a little bit. That’s why they traded away Evander Kane. They traded away Victor Arvdson. They’re just freeing up the money. They’re just giving themselves more flexibility. They’re signing Bousard. They’re holding out for McDavid, too. This seems to be the case for Edmonton. Meanwhile, LA, I mean, good luck, guys. 4 million for Dumalan, 4.5 for CC. That’s a lot of money. Let me know your thoughts in the comments section below about these contracts signed by the Kings and the Oilers. I hope you enjoyed this troll and bye.

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We’re going over the LA Kings and Edmonton Oilers free agency signings, from Corey Perry and Joel Armia, to Cody Ceci, Anton Forsberg, Brian Dumoulin, Riley Stillman, and Matt Tomkins.

This video is taking place after the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The 2025 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:

1st) New York Islanders, Matthew Schaefer
2nd) San Jose Sharks, Michael Misa
3rd) Chicago Blackhawks, Anton Frondell
4th) Utah Mammoth, Caleb Desnoyers
5th) Nashville Predators, Brady Martin
6th) Philadelphia Flyers, Porter Martone
7th) Boston Bruins, James Hagens
8th) Seattle Kraken, Jake O’Brien
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Radim Mrtka
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Roger McQueen
11th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Benjamin Kindel
12th) Philadelphia Flyers (from New York Rangers via Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins), Jack Nesbitt
13th) Detroit Red Wings, Carter Bear
14th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Jackson Smith
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Braeden Cootes
16th) New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames via Montreal Canadiens), Victor Eklund
17th) New York Islanders (from Montreal Canadiens), Kashawn Aitcheson
18th) Calgary Flames (from New Jersey Devils), Cole Reschny
19th) St. Louis Blues, Justin Carbonneau
20th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Minnesota Wild), Pyotr Andreyanov
21st) Nashville Predators (from Ottawa Senators), Cameron Reid
22nd) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Colorado Avalanche via Philadelphia Flyers), Bill Zonnon
23rd) Ottawa Senators (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Nashville Predators), Logan Hensler
24th) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Los Angeles Kings), Will Horcoff
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Vaclav Nestrasil
26th) Nashville Predators (from Vegas Golden Knights via San Jose Sharks), Ryker Lee
27th) Washington Capitals, Lynden Lakovic
28th) Winnipeg Jets, Sascha Boumedienne
29th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Mason West
30th) San Jose Sharks (from Dallas Stars), Joshua Ravensbergen
31st) Los Angeles Kings (from Edmonton Oilers via Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins), Henry Brzustewicz
32nd) Calgary Flames (from Florida Panthers), Cullen Potter

This video is also taking place after 2025 NHL Season, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.

Riley Stillman was one of the top NHL prospects at the 2016 NHL Entry Draft.

The 2016 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows:

1st – Toronto Maple Leafs, Auston Matthews
2nd – Winnipeg Jets, Patrik Laine
3rd – Columbus Blue Jackets, Pierre-Luc Dubois
4th – Edmonton Oilers, Jesse Puljujarvi
5th – Vancouver Canucks, Olli Juolevi
6th – Calgary Flames, Matthew Tkachuk
7th – Arizona Coyotes, Clayton Keller
8th – Buffalo Sabres, Alexander Nylander
9th – Montreal Canadiens, Mikhail Sergachev
10th – Colorado Avalanche, Tyson Jost
11th – Ottawa Senators (from New Jersey Devils), Logan Brown
12th – New Jersey Devils (from Ottawa Senators), Michael McLeod
13th – Carolina Hurricanes, Jake Bean
14th – Boston Bruins, Charlie McAvoy
15th – Minnesota Wild, Luke Kunin
16th – Arizona Coyotes (from Detroit Red Wings), Jakob Chychrun
17th – Nashville Predators, Dante Fabbro
18th – Winnipeg Jets (from Philadelphia Flyers), Logan Stanley
19th – New York Islanders, Kieffer Bellows
20th – Detroit Red Wings (from New York Rangers via Arizona Coyotes), Dennis Cholowski
21st – Carolina Hurricanes (from Los Angeles Kings), Julien Gauthier
22nd – Philadelphia Flyers (from Chicago Blackhawks via Winnipeg Jets), German Rubtsov
23rd – Florida Panthers, Henrik Borgstrom
24th – Anaheim Ducks, Max Jones
25th – Dallas Stars, Riley Tufte
26th – St. Louis Blues (from Washington Capitals), Tage Thompson
27th – Tampa Bay Lightning, Brett Howden
28th – Washington Capitals (from St. Louis Blues), Lucas Johansen
29th – Boston Bruins (from San Jose Sharks), Trent Frederic
30th – Anaheim Ducks (from Pittsburgh Penguins via Toronto Maple Leafs), Sam Steel

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