Good morning, everyone, and a happy Monday to you all. As always, I’ve got a post-draft, pre-free agency mailbag ready to go after taking your questions and sending them to the crew for their take on whatever’s on your mind. This week, we’re discussing Stuart Skinner’s next contract, the Oilers’ power play, a bounce-back year for Darnell Nurse, and more. If you’ve got a question you’d like to ask, email it to me at baggedmilk@oilersnation.com or on Twitter at @jsbmbaggedmilk, and I’ll get to you as soon as I can.

I don’t see a need to make any significant changes. The main five guys have been the best PP for the past four seasons. We will see some subtle changes, but I think the one change will be that the second unit gets a bit more PP time. They want the second unit group to get a few more touches.

I really don’t think so. I can maybe see them starting to use a second unit a little bit more or even trade out everyone except McDavid and Draisaitl at the minute mark and give some of their younger players a chance.

I think they’re going to be fine. This group has played together so long they can probably pull out Gulutzan’s PP plays with their eyes closed.

Minimum $5m. There are currently 22 active goalies making $5m+. Skinner is younger than all of them except Jeremy Swayman and Jake Oettinger who are both the same age (26). If he has a decent year he will get at least a five year deal, and I think if he has an above average year he’ll likely get at least a $6m AAV.

I am a big Stuart Skinner believer, but I would not go long-term with him unless the cost was very low and I’m not sure why he would sign a contract like that. Let’s say he has a solid year where he’s in the top half of NHL goalies in the regular season and is solid in the playoffs. If that were to happen, I could see a three year deal somewhere around $5-6m.

I bet he signed another 2-4 year contract when this season is up. I don’t think they go long-term unless his season blows everyone’s wheels off. Either way, I bet the next number starts with a $5 and people are gonna be mighty upset about it.

The main focus will be how they do in the playoffs, but ending the NHL’s longest division drought would make their path to the Stanley Cup a bit easier as they’d have home ice. They’ve made the Cup Final two years in a row by having home ice in only one of the six rounds v. Western Conference teams, so it isn’t a must, but it would be beneficial.

No. After these past two seasons, we really shouldn’t be putting too much stock into the regular season. Just make the playoffs and stay healthy. Having home ice advantage would be nice, but they just proved that it’s not neeeded to go on a long playoff run.

No, it wouldn’t be a failure but it sure would be a nice-to-have accomplishment at the end of the season.

Just play consistent and don’t try to do too much. When he plays to his strengths he is a positive asset, but when he tries to do too much is when he gets into trouble. It would help him if the Oilers acquired a strong second pair right shot defender at the deadline.

If he can drive the second pairing and give the Oilers 22+ minutes a night, then no one will be complaining. Evan Bouchard proved this past spring that he is capable of being a legit top-pairing defenseman who plays in every scenario, but if Nurse can take on some tough defensive assignments and put up decent numbers while starting in the d-zone more often than not, that would be huge.

He needs to be simple Darryl and he’ll be fine. The problem, of course, is that there’s nothing he can really do to shut up the haters so long as he’s making $9.25 million. I would have signed the deal too. Thanks, Ken.

The Tour du France is excellent. I highly recommend watching the Tour du France series on Netflix and then watching the Tour next year. You get to know the racers and learn how crazy hard that sport is. Some of the crashes are wild.

Golf or baseball for me. Don’t need to be dialed into every pitch, don’t need to be watching your favourite team or player, but the big moments will still be electric. Honourable mention goes to the Olympics whenever they’re happening.

I’d love to go to a playoff game in the MLB. The vibes are electric in October, and I think that would be a tonne of fun to witness first hand.

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