‘This is awesome’: Oilers fans react with excitement to acquiring Connor Murphy |
It wasn’t Oliver Ekman-Larsson or Justin Faulk, two defencemen the Edmonton Oilers were previously linked to before Monday, when they decided to pull the trigger on a trade for Connor Murphy from the Chicago Blackhawks.
The Oilers acquired the 32-year-old with Chicago retaining 50 per cent of his $4.4 million contract and the Oilers sending a 2028 second-round pick in exchange.
When the news broke that Edmonton was finalizing a trade for Murphy, fans instantly reacted on social media with mostly positive thoughts about the move.
https://twitter.com/DJ_Bean/status/2028574597235294692
I do like Connor Murphy but after Jeff Skinner, Frederic, Arvidsson and Mangiapane, I’m holding out excitement til we see how they play for us lol. Hope we didn’t give up to much but guessing they are taking Mangi which complicates things. – @2003nicko via X
Good addition for Edmonton, I like his game a lot. Someone I would’ve liked to see Yzerman go out and get to bolster the bottom 4 but it’s pretty clear he has no interest in pending UFAs, which makes sense. –........