So close, yet so far. For the past two years, the Edmonton Oilers have made the playoffs and made some noise when they got there. Each time, they fell convincingly to the eventual Stanley Cup champions.
Ideally, you’d take lessons from those losses and bolster your roster to better handle best-on-best matchups. Considering their 2023 offseason outlook, the Oilers might just be lucky if they can maintain what they had.
The Oilers will need to be agile during this offseason, making modest investments in free agency and ideally trading someone like Kailer Yamamoto.