Oilers waived Aulie, Lander, Pinizzotto, Pitlick. I think Pitlick would be worth a waiver pickup for a team with an opening on their 4th line that doesn't need to win immediately, he finally figured out the A last year and has the build and speed to be a good energy/checking player imo.
Draisaitl has looked very young, offensively OK and error prone defensively, but unfortunately for the Oilers he is better than anybody else they have at centre except Hopkins. He is going to be their 2nd line centre and really get thrown to the Wolves.
Oilers fans seem steamed that Marincin got sent down, they feel he was one of their better players.
Hopefully we don't have a similar scenario with Setoguchi making the team over somebody who played better than him in camp this week... would kind of throw the meritocracy credo out the window.
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