After failing to capture hockey's holy grail, the Stanley Cup for a second straight season, the Edmonton Oilers had plenty of hard decisions to make heading into the 2025 offseason.
There were multiple players with contracts expiring, some needing to be re-signed and some not but the Oilers were tight to the NHL salary cap ceiling. This caused the team to let multiple players walk in free agency like; Connor Brown, Corey Perry, and Jeff Skinner. General manager Stan Bowman also had to pull the trigger on a couple moves to dump salary by moving Viktor Arvidsson and Evander Kane.