Jake Oettinger knows what the NHL expects from a first-round draft pick. He also knows that the short list of goaltenders who have received that honor in the past decade includes only one unquestioned big-league success.
The path to becoming the Dallas Stars’ answer to Andrei Vasilevskiy is long and uncertain. But Oettinger’s time with the team in Edmonton’s Western Conference bubble is already changing his game, writes Sean Shapiro:
He’s not playing games, but Oettinger is getting more NHL-level work in Edmonton than he’s ever received in his life.