This is where the Oilers are in trouble, they desperately need to develop a 1-2 dman if they want to be effective. Both of those picks aren't exactly trending that way. They really reached and traded Hall for Larsson to try and fix the gap they had and that didn't exactly turn out well. A few years later and they are still spinning their tires while the years keep ticking off the McDavid contract.
Realistically, they are probably a few years away from having that elite dman, unless the blind squirrel finds a nut. McDavid will be on the back half of his 8 contract and probably debatable if he is still an Oiler if things trend the same way.
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