Last season the Edmonton Oilers had a couple of players who had their own breakout the mains ones being Zach Hyman scoring 50 goals and Evan Bouchard in his first full season of quarterbacking the Oilers powerplay he also set personal best this past season in all statistical areas. Evan Bouchard went from a career high of 12 goals and 31 assist to a massive 18 goals and 34 assist, as mentioned about the addition to him on the powerplay helped those numbers.
For Hyman on the other hand, it was his massive jump in goals that made him a standout last season. Heading into last season Hyman had never scored more than 40 goals in a season, 36 the season prior was his highest. Last season though he went off to score 54 times having him finishing 3 in the NHL of goals last season.
Each season has its fair share of highs and lows for every player in the NHL. The question comes down to how high/low and how long the player stays in the zone. For example, last season for the Oilers a lot of the players struggled at the beginning of the season, and it showed up in their team record, but once players like Hyman got in the zone, they looked like they couldn't be stopped.
Going into this season there are going to be the players that are going to have a good season because we have seen them do it before, Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl for example. In this article though I am going to take a look at three players that are going to have their breakout season for the Oilers. Just because they are having a break out year doesn't necessarily mean they will be young players, player 3 on the list, it could just mean that the way things have aligned on this team that this could be their best season by far in the NHL.