[CaptainCrunch]

He's got a huge job ahead of him and for Chiarelli to turn things around he's going to have to ahem make bold moves.

first or all, Edmonton is close to a cap team, and nobody is going to line up to help the Oilers dump garbage like Nikitin or Ference without major incentives.

While he has most of his players under contract, he has Roy as a UFA and he has Mr Norris Justin Hulka Schultz as a RFA. Unless he creatively dumps salaries he's out of the free agent market.

The Oilers need to rebuild their deplorable blueline, their goaltending and their bottom 6. That's a big job, not one that can turn over night.

He needs to decide on a coach, I'm betting Nelson isn't feeling particularly loyal to that team, and now with Chiarellin on board, it might be possible to get a TM out of San Jose, but every other team is going to be in a better position to get the really good coaches.

They have McDavid, and he will probably be a great player for them, but I'm convinced that they aren't winning anything with their current top end players. He's going to have to decide who needs to go to encourage the others.

Their organizational depth is stunningly bad.

Now maybe the guy that inherited a great core in Boston, and he added some good pieces, he had some gaffs in terms of deals and got into cap trouble as the teams core aged.

We'll see in Edmonton, but I don't think McDavid alone boosts this team in year one