I feel like the oilers will certainly take reinhart or bennett and it will be tragic. Their track record says they will go for the flashiest offensive guys, but they are desperate for size up front and defensemen.
Those two guys are great but they are both average to small sized. With a forward core already committed to yakupov, hall, eberle, nugent, gagner and perron, calling them small up front is like calling tyrion lannister a little short. Their top 6 has got to be the smallest in the league.
Add another small skilled forward into the mix who will be in their top 9 for years (even if they are scrappy like bennett or perron)... They are going to get pulverized and Gadzic can only fight so many battles for them.
Picking Draitsaitl would make sense for them and be good for us. Do the right thing Oilers.
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