EDMONTON, July 2 -- Darnell Nurse gave the Oilers a list of three cities he would accept a trade to, and for weeks none of them worked. On Wednesday, the team that built two trips to the Stanley Cup Final around him traded him to a fourth city that was never on the list at all.

The San Jose Sharks acquired Nurse from Edmonton for defenseman Shakir Mukhamadullin and a prospect, taking on the final five years of an eight-year, $74 million contract the Oilers signed him to in August 2021, with no salary retained on Edmonton's side, according to NBC Sports Bay Area. The $9.25 million cap hit moves west in full, and so does the player Edmonton spent twelve seasons building its blue line around.

Nurse's contract carries full no-movement prote...