This summer, Peter Chiarelli expressed a fondness for players who remember being passed over and come back to exact vengeance for the slight. As the Edmonton Oilers GM looks over his team’s record and upcoming schedule, though, he has to be hoping that two of the skaters he shipped out of town fail to exhibit that trait.
We’re speaking, of course, of Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle, both of whom have the opportunity to kick their former team while it’s down.
The 2017-18 NHL season is still young enough that it’s not yet possible to write off this iteration of the Oilers, but it’s getting grim out there.