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Originally Posted by sureLoss
It's coming from a few people who are close to the Oilers organization.
Jim Matheson and Bob Stauffer are pumping Draisaitl. Stauffer has been for the past few weeks been preaching on Edmonton radio that the Oilers aren't necessarily going for Ekblad.
Also a poster on this board who works for the Oilers is implying that the Oilers may have Draisaitl ranked even higher than Ekblad.
Draisaitl plays a physical type of game and has the size to back it up that the Oilers are sorely missing in their top 6.
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Granted, the Oilers media can't always be taken at face value. Prior to the Yakupov pick, Stauffer and Tencer were both pumping up Murray saying how they thought he'd be the guy taken. I would guess it has more to do with them trying to temper expectations in case they finish 3rd last and a team jumps them in the lottery...so they can say they got Draisaitl at #4 and that's who they wanted the whole time.