I am not worried about the Oilers next year and I will tell you why.
The Oilers have count 'em 6 forwards coming off of career years in terms of point production:
Drake Caggiula
Leon Draisaitl
Mark Letestu
Patrick Maroon
Connor McDavid
Anton Slepyshev
It is not unreasonable to think that some of these players might repeat or improve, but it is foolish to believe that all of these players will bring the same level of offense next year. Also, the Oilers were fortunate in terms of injury, with only one top six forward missing games.
Moreover, their goalie will have to repeat a career performance for them to reach the same level of success. It is anyone guess to see if he will ever be that good again.
Lets face it the Oilers were good last year, but I suspect that it was a lightening in a bottle scenario. It will be a tall task for that many players to improve their totals.
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