Oilers focus on skill, competitiveness in late rounds of NHL draft
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When you are picking 83rd, 117, 131, 191 and 223 in the NHL draft, the burning question is probably whether captain Connor McDavid, GM Stan Bowman and head of hockey ops Jeff Jackson will still be here in Edmonton when any or all of the kids the Oilers selected Saturday are anywhere near the NHL in, say, 2030.
Nothing against WHL forwards Tommy Lafreniere or David Lewandowski, their first two picks, or Ashir Barnett, Finnish goalie Daniel Salonen and California-born centre Aidan Park, who went later, but we're not going to see them in a while. Not with the Oilers current lot in life in their win-now mode with McDavid and Leon Draisaitl in their prime,
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