The St. Louis Blues are looking to take advantage of an opportunity to land a couple of players from the Edmonton Oilers.
St. Louis announced on Tuesday that the team has tendered offer sheets to defenceman Philip Broberg and forward Dylan Holloway.
Broberg has been offered a two-year contract with an annual cap hit of $4,580,917. The offer sheet compensation should the Oilers decide not to accept the deal is a second-round draft pick.
The Blues made Holloway an offer of a two-year contract with an annual cap hit of $2,290,457. The Oilers would receive a third-round draft pick as compensation for the offer sheet if they choose not to accept it.
The Oilers have seven days to exercise their right of first refusal on each of the players.
Edmonton is one of the few teams currently over the salary cap, by $354,167. This could make it tough to match the offers to Holloway and Broberg but the Oilers can exceed the salary cap by 10 per cent in the off-season.
In order to tender the offer sheets, the Blues made a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins Tuesday to re-acquire their second-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft and acquire Pittsburgh’s fifth-round selection in 2026. In exchange, the Penguins received St. Louis’ second-round pick in 2026 and Ottawa’s 2025 third-round selection, which was acquired in the deal that sent Mathieu Joseph to the Blues.
Broberg has played 81 career games for the Oilers over the last three seasons, registering two goals and 13 points. Edmonton selected the 23-year-old eighth overall in the 2019 NHL Draft.
Holloway has appeared in 89 career games with Edmonton, scoring nine goals and 18 points while also registering event points during the team’s run to the 2024 Stanley Cup Final. The 22-year-old was selected 14th overall by the Oilers in the 2020 NHL Draft.
The last time a team made an offer sheet was back in 2021 when the Carolina Hurricanes signed Jesperi Kotkaniemi to a one-year, $6.1 million deal. The Montreal Canadiens decided not to match and received the Hurricanes’ first and third-round picks in the 2022 NHL Draft.
Since the salary cap era, only two offer sheets have been offered and not matched. The other instance was in 2007, when Dustin Penner went from the Anaheim Ducks to the Oilers.
