Drai and McAvi can basically name their own price to play anywhere, why would they want to extend in Edmonton? The only leverage Edmonton has is maybe the 8th year, but Drai and McAvi will need to take a hometown discount. They can probably make as much (if not more) money signing 7-year deals elsewhere.
Knowing that, the Oilers should trade them away to get some assets back, but they can't. It will be bad optics for the fans saying that they have basically given up, and also I don't think there will be a lot of takers for trades because other teams know that they can wait till UFA time to sign them.
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