The Oilers have been a dumpster fire, roughly since Messier got traded, in large part because we've continually had weak depth at centre. Arnott and nobody. Weight and nobody. Horcoff masquerading as a 1C. Now that we can honestly foresee a time when we can roll out McDavid, Draisaitl and the Nuge how can we let that go?
There has to be some way to upgrade on D by trading a combination of wingers, prospects and draft picks and not gutting the centre depth we've suffered so long to build. Sadly, we probably have to be patient (I know, I know, I cringe at that word), hope Klefbom, Nurse, Reinhardt and Jultz progress and wait for the next Hamilton or Hamonic situation to pop up. If all else fails, we may have to pray our scouts find the next Parayko of our own.
In short, we have 3 birds in the hand at C and that will open up huge opportunities for line matching, especially on the road, and some options when injuries inevitably happen. We are almost there. Do not trade Nuge or Drai. We would live to regret it.
