The Oilers have traded Caleb Jones and a third round in exchange for Duncan Keith. No word yet on any salary being retained. With salary retained it is a slightly less horrible deal. With no salary retained it is absolutely horrendous and could be up there in awful trades as the Reinhart deal. Yes that bad. Once again the Oilers have given up on a budding young defenseman way too early and instead are going with "intangibles."

Keith's numbers have been horrible and declining over the past few seasons and his partners do better away from him, even the rookies. This is a bad bad bet by Ken Holland and a massive waste of the cap space that should be building this team to contend now.

I'll update later when I know more.

Update. There is no salary retained. Enjoy slamming the Oilers in the comments section.

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