Any early guesses as to what defencemen will be available for the oilers to acquire? Either at the TDL or early in the season? Assuming they put Kane on LTIR of course.
Of course the problem the oilers have is they have little to nothing left to trade. The picks they acquired from St. Louis wouldn’t be enough to get a bonafide top four defenceman. They traded their 2025 first round pick for the last pick in the first round of the 2024 draft. They could of course trade their 1st round pick in 2026 but that would be when they start falling after Draisaitl leaves (if the fall doesn’t come this year)… so that could be a very costly pick to trade.
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