 RDOilerfan
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I will be curious to see if the Oilers 5 on 5 play will improve once they are healthy.
To start the season the Oilers had I would say 3 legit top 6 players. McD, Leon, Nuge. They had Neal and Kassian who I would say can be top 6 guys at times and then a bunch of 3rd and 4th liners and a few AHLers.
Today once they are healthy. They have 4 legit top 6 players in McD, Leon, Nuge, Yamo. I believe that Athanasiou is also a top 6 guy. He scored 30 last year and had 20 goal paces the 2 previous seasons on a really bad team. So I believe they have 5 top 6 guys. Then you have Kassian and Neal as the tweeners. So they in my opinion can ice a top 6 that is pretty decent.
Then you factor in a Ennis who I think is a top 9 guy and can go up and down in your top 3 lines. What I also see as a positive is once they are completely healthy, that will allow them to either scratch or send down P.Russell who is an AHLer in my opinion. He tries hard but no goals in 45 games tells me you aren't an NHLer. Also once they are healthy, that will allow them to scratch a Kharia. So they will eliminate 2 guys, one an AHLer, the other a 13th forward who contribute nothing offensively and where the play dies on their stick.
So comparing the start of the season roster to now once they are healthy, the Oilers have added 3 fast, skilled forwards to their line up in Yamo, Ennis and Athanasiou. That's MASSIVE.
In addition, once Klef is back, I would sit Russell and go with:
Klef-Larsson
Nurse-Bear
Jones-Benning.
On every pair, you have left - right dmen. You have guys who can skate and guys who can move the puck on every pair. Plus every pair has a guy who can create at least some offense. Something they didn't have at the start of the year and something they have lacked for YEARS. When Green comes back, I would consider swapping him in for Benning. You still have the left-right combos. Then you have 4 out of 6 dmen who are good skaters, 4 out of 6 who can move the puck pretty well and 5 out of 6 who can provide some offense.
Since January, they have added 3 skilled forwards in Yamo, Ennis and Athanasiou and 2 skilled, good skating, puck moving dmen in Jones and Green. So that's 5 new good skating, skilled players to their line up. That's significant. There isn't enough time I assume to dramatically change the season numbers but I do wonder what the numbers will look like for the last month and a bit.
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