The Oilers are the slowest team in the league (maybe San Jose?). It must be weird to game plan for the Oilers...who employ the fastest (fastest relevant player...Michael Grabner is not relevant) and maybe most technically skilled player in the league and he's surrounded by probably the slowest group in the NHL. Their defense is not very talented and they have, what, one player that can carry the puck one line? So it's a full center breakout every time...Draisaitl has struggled to carry a line by himself for extended periods of time and he's not a great skater himself (though, his skating has improved dramatically since his draft year). Lucic can't skate, Strome isn't a good skater (no pop to his stride), same with Nuge...Maroon was there, he's the slowest top-six forward in the league...Cammy clearly has nothing left in that department...Kassian is actually a plus skater in this group haha
The struggle is to keep McDavid in front of you...there's no chance that the others can get behind you...it's difficult for them to support the play, wingers and defense, because the speed differential is so great. It allows you to "island" off McDavid...the only issue with that is that no one in the league can handle him 1 on 1, so still scores a boat load of points (I mean, he's unstoppable) but the rest of the team is also-rans...McDavid had 200 points this year, and they had like 1 or 2 guys score more than 40 or whatever...that's a joke...