Edmonton Oiler Free Agents

In my last post I mentioned that the Oilers have quite a few free agents to sign, here is a quick list of who they are:

Forwards

Radek Dvorak
Ales Hemsky (restricted)
Sean Horcoff (restricted)
Georges Laraque
Rem Murray
Michael Peca
Fernando Pisani
Sergie Samsonov
Jerret Stoll (restricted)

Defencemen

Jeroslav Spacek
Dick Tarnstrom

Goalie

Dwayne Roloson

The Oilers have 11 players under contract for next season for just over $19 million so the Oilers do have a bit of room before they do hit the expected $44 million cap.
A quick look at it tells you they won't have all of them back but here is my list of the 6 that I think they should definitely sign

Ales Hemsky - he had a break out year and play great in the playoffs, he's a restricted free agent so it looks good that he will be back.

Dwayne Roloson - no one since Grant Fhur has look that good in net for the Oilers and there are rumors that the Oilers will sign him before the end of the month - lets hope so.

Sean Horcoff - another Oiler that had a break out year and played well in the playoffs. There is also a good chance he will be back since he is also a restricted free agent.

Fernando Pisani - home town boy makes it big - he didn't do much in the regular season but he was the best Oiler on the ice in the playoffs, scoring what seemed like every big goal the Oilers would need.

Michael Peca - he started out horribly but he finished the playoffs playing the way everyone expected he would play in Edmonton. He was also one of the reasons the Oilers penalty kill was so good in the playoffs. The word is though he likely won't be back, still I would love to see him back in an Oiler uniform.

Jeroslav Spacek - he help the Oilers quite a bit on the powerplay and played pretty well and seemed to fit in right away with the Oilers game style.

Those are the 6 players that I would really want to see back but more than likely the Oilers will only be able to keep Hemsky, Horcoff, Stoll, Laraque, Murray, Pisani and Roloson. I don't think Peca wants to come back, not that he doesn't like Edmonton, it's just too far from his family. I'm pretty confident that Roloson will be back, he played too well for the Oilers to just let him slip away.