Damien Cox: The Oilers just might be good enough to celebrate the present for a change
That’s not to say the Oilers are a backward organization. Nothing could be further from the truth, and that gorgeous rink the taxpayers built for them in downtown Edmonton is certainly in the conversation every time the subject of best NHL arena comes up.
With those caveats out of the way, however, you would be entirely forgiven if, based on where the NHL sits in the first week of April, you were to look at the Oilers as beautifully positioned to go all the way this spring. The knock against the Oilers as recently as two springs ago when they were shocked by Winnipeg in the first round of the post-season was that they were essentially a one-line team. That isn’t the case any longer. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins has blossomed at age 29, and is sixth in NHL scoring. He’ll almost certainly soon give Edmonton its third 100-plus points player.
Mattias Ekholm, meanwhile, is proving to be the best single trade-deadline acquisition of any NHL club. He’s a plus-18 in 16 games, not the most reliable stat, but he seems to have added the savvy and confidence on the blue line that the team needed while taking some of the heat off Darnell Nurse and Evan Bouchard.
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