Five million dollar defenseman Sheldon Souray has confirmed he will be reporting to the AHL's Hershey bears for the next season (link to the news article). Souray's troubles started last season when he requested a trade, on more than one occasion. While demanding a trade not only did souray blast management in a couple different interviews, he also diminished his own trade value. Here is an interview Souray had with Mark Spector on the situation last season (link). This scenario can play out in two ways Souray plays good ups his trade value and we find a trade for him. However this creates a problem with Souray having to clear re-entry waivers. If Souray was to be traded he would have to be called up giving all 29 teams a crack at him at half the salary. The question is does the Edmonton oilers want to be on the hook for half of that salary on the cap at about 2.7 for the next two years. The other scenario would be leaving Souray in the AHL for the next two years. We still would pay the full salary but not have it counts against the cap. This would ultimately be up to Daryl Katz as he would be on the hook for 9 million dollars (that’s how much is left on his contract for the next 2 years). This is a tough decision the oilers brass has ahead of them and it needs to be giving a great deal of thought, to see what is best for the team. I don’t see the oilers putting him on re-entry but we shall see what we’ll be the next turn of events in the Souray show. For now he will be grinding it out in the AHL.
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