Two Edmonton Oilers projected to be in their bottom six next season were involved in the same trade tree.

Well, kind of. One of those players, Max Jones, was traded to the Oilers before the 2025 trade deadline. As for the other player, Mathieu Joseph, he found his way to the Oilers by signing a one-year deal early in free agency.

Joseph was drafted by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2015, and won the Stanley Cup with them in 2020-21, scoring 12 goals and 19 points in 56 games. Before the 2022 trade deadline, he was shipped off to the Ottawa Senators, a team which he’d spend parts of three seasons.

The first trade of the trade tree came on July 2nd, 2024. In a cap dump, the Senators sent Joseph and a 2025 third-round pick to the St. Louis Blues for future considerations. Joseph has no more ramifications on this trade tree, as he scored four goals and 14 points in 60 games with the Blues in 2024-25, then another two goals and 11 points in 39 games with them this past season before........

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