{"id":31434,"date":"2018-06-21T13:53:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T17:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=31434"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T17:53:42","slug":"edmonton-oilers-eric-gryba-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2018\/06\/21\/edmonton-oilers-eric-gryba-buyout\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers Place Eric Gryba on Waivers for Buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/\/nhl-teams\/oilers\/\" target=\"_self\"> Edmonton Oilers<\/a> have placed defenseman <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/grybaer01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Gryba<\/a><\/strong> on waivers for the purpose of buying out his contract. The team announced the transaction on Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oilers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Oilers<\/a> have placed defenceman Eric Gryba on unconditional waivers for the purpose of buying out his contract. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A4QafIyMTW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/A4QafIyMTW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdmontonOilers\/status\/1009829548266000386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Eric Gryba to be Bought Out by Edmonton Oilers<\/h2>\n<p>Gryba split time between the Oilers and the American Hockey League affiliate Bakersfield Condors. He chipped in with two assists in 21 games with Edmonton.<\/p>\n<p>The Saskatoon native was slated to make $900,000 in the final year of his contract, which he signed prior to the start of the 2017-18 season. He will become an unrestricted free agent once his contract is officially bought out. His cap hit for the next two seasons will be $300,000 according to CapFriendly.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old has totaled seven goals and 36 assists for 43 points in 279 career games. Gryba has played with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> and Edmonton Oilers in six-year NHL career. The former Boston University product was drafted in the third round, 68<sup>th<\/sup> overall by the Senators.<\/p>\n<p>Gryba thanked the organization on Twiiter for his time with the team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Huge thanks to Edmonton and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdmontonOilers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@EdmontonOilers<\/a>  for the great years! I will miss you all! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2YLAX4n9sC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/2YLAX4n9sC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Gryba (@grybes02) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grybes02\/status\/1009845629923745795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 21, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>What it Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>The move has multiple layers to it as general manager Peter Chiarelli could have buried Gryba\u2019s $900,000 salary in Bakersfield. Edmonton wouldn\u2019t have been on the hook for any money it made this move.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers have added $300,000 of dead money to the books for the 2019-20 season when it could\u2019ve all been gone after this season.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are some positives to the move as it opens a 50-man roster spot. It also allows younger players like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bearet01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ethan Bear<\/a><\/strong> and<strong> Caleb Jones<\/strong> a chance to develop with more ice time. Gryba would have taken time away from the duo. It also saves the Oilers $300,000 in real money.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Gryba just couldn\u2019t keep up with the faster league. 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The team announced the transaction on Thursday. The #Oilers have placed defenceman Eric Gryba on unconditional waivers for the purpose of buying out his contract. pic.twitter.com\/A4QafIyMTW &mdash; Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) June 21, 2018 Eric Gryba to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":31444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[2727,2376,138,514,2377,70,1522],"class_list":["post-31434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oilers","category-news","tag-bakersfield-condors","tag-caleb-jones","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-eric-gryba","tag-ethan-bear","tag-ottawa-senators","tag-peter-chiarelli"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}