The Oilers made the following transactions in and around the July 1 free agent period in recent years:
2008
June 29 -- Traded Matt Greene and Jarret Stoll to the Los Angeles Kings for Lubomir Visnovsky
July 1 -- Traded Joni Pitkanen to the Carolina Hurricanes for Erik Cole
July 1 --Traded Raffi Torres to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Gilbert Brule
July 10 -- Signed UFA Jason Strudwick from the New York Rangers
2007
July 1 --Traded Joffrey Lupul and Jason Smith to the Philadelphia Flyers for Joni Pitkanen, Geoff Sanderson and a 3rd round pick in 2009
July 1 -- Signed UFA Dick Tarnstrom
July 3 --Signed UFA Mathieu Garon from the Los Angeles Kings
July 5 -- Traded second round pick to the New York Islanders for Allan Rourke and a third round pick
July 12 -- Signed UFA Sheldon Souray from the Montreal Canadiens
Aug 2 -- Signed Group 2 free agent Dustin Penner from the Anaheim Ducks
2006
July 3 -- Traded Chris Pronger to the Anaheim Ducks for Joffrey Lupul, Ladislav Smid, a 1st round pick, 2nd round pick in 2008 and a conditional 1st round pick in 2008
July 4 -- Signed UFA Marty Reasoner from the Boston Bruins
July 6 -- Signed UFA Daniel Tjarnqvist from the Minnesota Wild
July 10 --Traded 7th roud pick for Jan Hejda
Aug 11 -- Sign UFA Petr Sykora from the New York Rangers
2005
Aug 3 -- Traded Mike York and a conditional draft pick to the Islanders for Mike Peca
Aug 3 -- Traded Eric Brewer, Jeff Woywitka and Doug Lynch to the St. Louis Blues for Chris Pronger
