It is nice hearing all of the commentaries about Connor McDavid without addressing the elephant on the couch.
The Oilers are an abysmally constructed franchise.
They all know this, but they never mention it because...
1. Thin skinned Oiler fans lose what remaining brain cells they have.
2. They fear access to the Golden Child, by talking TOO negatively about a franchise that can't construct a contending franchise with over a decade of top 10 picks.
Think about this Thread and how long deep and dark anyone in hockey media could go on the Oilers?
However the continuous realistic analysis of their situation would be construed as "Negative"..
("Why do you guys gotta be so negative?" )
This would, and has, ticked off Oiler management... so... the hockey media just dances around the discussion of their ineptitude... and focuses on...
WOW-WEEE... Connor's magic.