The Oilers have been dealing with a tight salary cap situation all season long, primarily using LTIR in order to keep cap-compliant. At the moment, they have two forwards on there in Kasperi Kapanen and Noah Philp but even with that, they are only able to afford to carry a minimum-sized roster of 12 forwards, six defensemen, and two goalies.

That could soon be changing, however. Jason Gregor of Sports 1440 indicates ( Twitter link ) that the Oilers will likely move defenseman Jake Walman to LTIR over the next couple of days. In doing so, they’ll add his $3.4MM AAV to their LTIR pool which will be enough to call up an extra forward and defenseman as they get set to embark on a five-game road trip that begins on Saturday in Toronto.

Walman is in his first full season with

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