3 Players Who Have Something To Prove In The Final Weeks

The Edmonton Oilers are in the home stretch of the NHL regular season. The season as of right now is a success. They will be a playoff team barring a monumentality collapse. The team is playing fairly good right now. The majority of the team is playing the way they need to in the playoffs.

That doesn’t mean that every player has been perfect. The top 6 forwards are playing good and it looks like those 6 players will be locked in that role. They may move around but the top six should stay the top 6.

Connor McDavid, Evander Kane, Zach Hyman, Jesse Puljujärvi, Kailer Yamamoto and Leon Draisaitl are the teams best option for the first two lines. It is the depth positions that are very fluid right now. The only lock in my opinion is Ryan Nugent-Hopkins as the 3rd line center.

The Edmonton Oilers still have players that have something to prove this season.

With 8 games left in the season there is very little time left for some players to prove they belong in their role. It is not that the player isn’t an NHL caliber player it is just they can and need to play better.

This breakdown of 3 players that have something to prove is going to breakdown not only what they have done so far this season, but what they will need to do moving forward this season and the playoffs.