{"id":281836,"date":"2025-11-03T06:40:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/281836\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T06:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:40:17","slug":"edmonton-oilers-linked-to-blockbuster-trade-with-los-angeles-kings-for-star-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/281836\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers linked to blockbuster trade with Los Angeles Kings for star forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00abThe Kings and Ken Holland have to accept the fact that his contract’s likely gonna be in the 11s; there are teams like Edmonton… lurking in the weeds just curious as to where this is gonna go.”Superstar’s name continues to surface around the Oilers<\/p>\n

Kempe is in the final season of a four-year contract with LA, at a $5,5M cap hit. There has been talk that Adrian could be asking for $12M on an extension, but the two sides continue to be at odds.<\/p>\n

Kris Knoblauch has always emphasized Edmonton’s transition game, utilizing his team’s skill and speed to play with pace. Adding Kempe to the Oilers with its puck-moving defensemen would strengthen their offensive game considerably and address its trouble scoring more than 3 goals-per-game on average.<\/p>\n

To facilitate a trade for Kempe, however, Stan Bowman would require dealing away Darnell Nurse<\/a> and his massive $9.25M AAV.<\/p>\n

Also, Adam Henrique<\/a>‘s lack of offensive production and inconsistency could prompt the GM to include him in a package to LA.<\/p>\n

Of course, there as several ways Bowman could go about facilitating a trade for Kempe, including salary retention to bring his cap hit down, and adding Beau Akey<\/a>, prospect Max Berezkin, their 2027 first-round pick, and their 2026 second-round pick.<\/p>\n

It could be costly, but Kempe would bring a blend of speed and finish that improves Oilers’ offense immediately, while having a permanent winger for the remainder of McDavid’s current contract and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00abThe Kings and Ken Holland have to accept the fact that his contract’s likely gonna be in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[25489,366,155,146,5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-281836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-2025-2026-nhl-season","9":"tag-adrian-kempe","10":"tag-connor-mcdavid","11":"tag-edmonton-oilers","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-kings","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-kings","16":"tag-lakings","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-kings","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-losangeleskings","21":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115484401657976103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}