NHL Draft, Edmonton Oilers Mandatory Credit: Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports
With the 2021 NHL draft around the corner, now would be a good time to review the options likely to be available to the Oilers at 19th overall. Given the nature of the season that’s just occurred, there’s even less publicly available information than usual so the analysis will be limited.
I’ve been writing about the draft in various places for a number of years and love checking my own preferences after the fact. Over the past few years, the players I would’ve picked in the Oilers’ draft positions within the first two rounds included players like Lukas Reichel (2020), trade down for Philip Tomasino and Nick Robertson (2019), Noah Dobson and Cam Hillis (2018), Henri Jokiharju (2017), and Mikhail Sergachev and Carter Hart (2016).