Edmonton Oilers: I don’t think it’s much of a leap to say that most of us assumed that Kailer Yamamoto and Jesse Puljujarvi would be competing against each other to see who would be riding starboard side shotgun to Connor McDavid and who would be riding starboard side to Leon Draisaitl.
But, early on in the season, this is proving not to be the case.
Instead, Yamamoto and Puljujarvi have both faltered and demoted, and we’ve seen a couple of guys step up that we didn’t expect.