What I loved about the '06 team, they had a line they could put out with a 1 goal lead in the last minute, and you were confident they'd shut it down. Peca, Moreau, Dvo with Pronger and Gator on the back end. With this team, we don't have that...but what we do have is the ability to score 3 goals in a period.
What I would do to inject playoffs 2006 Peca into the current Oilers lineup. Would be a perfect compliment to this lineup.
In my head I keep thinking scoring LW, top4 left shot D rental and goalie should be on Holland's shopping list at the deadline/off season, but the more I think about it a rock solid 3rd line C might be more valuable than any of those 3 positions other than goalie. Having a really reliable 3rd line C would take some burden off McDavid and Leon and would give us a match up advantage.
RNH - McDavid - Puljujarvi
Kahun - Draisaitl - Yamamoto
Ennis - Solid 3C - Archibald
Neal - Khaira/Haas - Kassian
*Chaisson, Haas/Khaira
That good 3C balances the bottom 6 in a hurry.