Roy has turned him into quite the player.

He's much more mature this season and can only get better.

You dont trade a known commodity for "Can only get better". Best case scenario you get a prospect d-man for Yak... I'd say it would be smarter to keep him until he atleast shows he can put up 50-60 points in this league.

I don't think they trade him anyways. But he's definitely starting to look like that 1OA.

They need some depth at wing though because they've got nobody after Eberle, Hall, Yakupov.

Meanwhile at centre they've got RNH, Roy, McDavid, Draisaitl.


Eberle - RNH - Hall
Pouliot - McDavid - Purcell
Draisailt - Roy - Yakupov
xxx - xxx - xxx

I think they want to keep Roy so idk if Draisaitl even fits in until next year



Oh, okay then

Their forward group is definitely good enough with that top 9 to be a playoff team. Just a matter of give/take trying to buffer their defense/goaltending.

This post was edited by Farine on Apr 24 2015 01:56pm

And Draisaitl can play the wing ;-)

Ease him into the nhl on wing before throwing him in center again.

Draisaitl Roy yak

Would be a good third line

This post was edited by Subzer0isGG on Apr 24 2015 01:55pm

McDavid is untouchable,
you don't want to trade away RNH or Hall
I don't know much about Draisaitl

Which is why I feel from Oilers perspective, Eberle and Yakupov are expendable

This post was edited by rattle-trap on Apr 24 2015 02:00pm

I agree. But I'd like to keep yak to replace eberle.

There's no way you can keep McDavid, RNH, Hall, Yakupov, Eberle, Draisaitl (if hes good) all at same time especially down the road with contracts. You probably have to lose 2 of them.

This post was edited by rattle-trap on Apr 24 2015 02:21pm

Drasaitl is most expendible IMO. He was drafted to be 2C and with RNH and McJesus, they're gonna end up paying him $6m to be a 3C. Trade him and Eberle and they'll be fine.

If Draisaitl is any good. I don't know much about him other than he's 3rd overall 2014. But can you get much for trading him? That's the issue since he doesn't have the big name or stats

Should be able to get plenty, he was pretty highly touted last year. I'd bet you could get a first in the 10-20 range for him at a minimum. Not in this draft, of course... too deep.

This post was edited by dxlightning on Apr 24 2015 02:32pm