3 Edmonton Oilers Who Should Be Excited Under Kris Knoblauch
Dylan Holloway
Over the last few games, Dylan Holloway has been slowly working his way up the lineup. It took him way too long to find his spot in the top six if you ask me. The way this team was playing they needed some life in the top six.
Holloway plays hard on every shift. He finishes all of his hits and has the skill to be a top six player. Just look at where he was drafted. He was drafted 12th overall in 2020. Players that get drafted that high are supposed to have skill.
Holloway has the potential to be a very similar style of player as Zach Hyman. A player that will battle hard to bring the puck back if they lose possession. Look at the goal he scored against the Seattle Kraken. He was in the dirty area and was able to put the puck in a scrum.
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I hope Knoblauch uses this style of play as an example. If more players played with this type of edge then I think this team would be near impossible to beat. Hyman is given a top six role, so if you bump up Holloway it will show the team the way you want to play on a night-to-night basis.
If you watched the Oilers over the last few years you would have seen Woodcroft promote everyone else except Holloway into a top six role. I mean we have seen Devin Shore and Mattias Janmark in the top six over Holloway.
Hopefully, Knoblauch looks at this team and looks at the skills and abilities of the players and not the names on their jerseys. He needs to sit people who are struggling. Not everyone plays a perfect game every night. So there needs to be movement in the lineup nightly.
This should allow Holloway to move up higher on the depth chart as I think more times than not he plays really hard and this is exactly what the team needs to be playing like right now.