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Originally Posted by dino7c
Future? I think they could get a current high end dman for Drai...I also think he is highly over rated due to his time with McDavid. That's not to say he is bad but McDavid boosts him 20+ points.
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They kept him more for business reasons than for hockey reasons imo. While I personally think that signing him and McDavid gives them their best chance for success on the ice what signing both of them does is lockdown a generation of fans. If he and McDavid play for the Oilers for 17-20 years 90% of kids born between 2010-2025 and raised in rural Alberta will likely grow up to be Oilers fans and probably 20-30% of kids raised in Calgary for that same time period probably grow up to be Oilers fans. Suspect that significantly helps both franchise valuation and the Oilers bottom line. Pretty much a no brainer from a business perspective.