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This in from Sportsnet’s Nick Kypreos, his speculation that Team Canada goalie Jordan Binnington of the St. Louis Blues is on the trading block and could well be headed to the Edmonton Oilers.
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Wrote Kypreos today: “Binnington has one more season on his contract and the sense is he won’t be part of any re-tool the Blues might undergo. The strongest speculation ties Binnington to Edmonton, and that the Oilers are also seeing if they can get a defenceman out of St. Louis at the same time. That potential deal would most likely be built around Stuart Skinner going back to St. Louis to team up with Hofer.”
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1. This is Kypreos speculating, as he makes clear, but there’s been plenty of smoke about around the fire of upset in Edmonton over the team’s goaltending, with NHL and Oilers insiders speculating a trade might come this season and sooner than later. Binnington is one of the options for the Oilers, but he’s an expensive one with a cap hit of $6,000,000 million for this year and next year. Stuart Skinner is on an expiring deal of $2.6 million, so Edmonton would have to throw in a major sweetener to get St. Louis to eat part of Binnington’s contract.
It’s not clear to me that Kypreos has heard any strong intel that such a trade with Edmonton is in the works, or if he’s just putting two and two together to make four. But the trade talk makes sense here, even if Binnington has five wins and nine losses so far this year on a struggling Blues team.
2. Binnington, 32, is having a worse season than Skinner if you go by save percentage. Binnington ranks 55th out of 67 regular NHL goalies with an .880 save percentage, while Skinner ranks 50th at .885. Of course, if either Binnington or Skinner were killing it, neither would be on the trading block.
3. Binnington was Team Canada’s starting goalie at the Four Nations tournament. Early in the tournament he played poorly, but he was a hero of the winning game over the United States, making a series of stupendous saves with the game on the line. He’s long been considered a lock to make the Team Canada Olympic roster. And, of course, he won a Stanley Cup in St. Louis in 2019, though he’s been only an above average goalie, at best, since that time.
In seven playoff games against Winnipeg last spring Binnington had a .901 save percentage.
4. If the Oilers were also to move out veteran d-man Brett Kulak in the trade, as Kulak makes $2.75 million and does not have trade protection, Edmonton might well seek to bring in a d-man from St. Louis, but it’s not clear to me who that might be. The d-man would have to come cheap in terms of his contract price. Left shot, third-pairing d-man Tyler Tucker, 25, makes $925,000.
Does a Jordan Binnington to the Oilers trade make good sense for Edmonton, assuming the price isn’t exorbitant.
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