Why would the Oilers go "big game hunting"? They are already a very good team with good chemistry. They just need some tweaks, beef up that 3rd line, find a complimentary scoring winger, 2nd level puckmoving Dman. Bonino, Eaves and Green. Names like that. Complimentary players who won't cost a lot to acquire or sign.
Forget Tavares, the Oilers don't have the assets to get him and quite frankly, they don't need a 3rd highly skilled center. Don't understand why you always bring up Duchene as well, the Oilers don't need Duchene and they don't have any expendable assets that the Avs would likely be interested in. Don't see them having much interest in Nurse, they would likely ask for Klefbom and the Oilers laugh that off.
They're not getting Oscar Klefbom from anyone else. You don't have to give them exactly what they want, you just have to outbid what else is on the market and often times it's a hell of a lot less than what HFBoards thinks that is.
We don't need chemistry, we have perfectly good guys in the locker room with McDavid, Draisaitl, etc. as the leadership group.
We need someone to score a damn goal or two from our third line. If RNH or Eberle score even one lousy goal a piece against the Ducks, odds are no one's posting in this thread because we're playing the Predators in the Conference Finals. But they couldn't even between them match the goal total of Drake Caggiula, a rookie.
Honestly we should have dumped Eberle for Phil Kessel when the Leafs were trying to move on. Smart GMs take advantage of situations like that, they don't sit back and say "well what we have is good enough". That trade has probably propelled Pittsburgh to at least one Cup, maybe two.
If we land a Tavares (a long shot, but IF), the question really becomes not "do we win a Cup?", but "how many?". Now wouldn't that be a nice problem to have.