Middle Of The Pack Edmonton Oilers Need To Target Teams Below Them For Player Additions, Not Teams Above Them

This article here is an interesting one. The Ottawa Senators were comfortably ahead of the Edmonton Oilers in the standings in 2025-26 and they will likely be again in 2026-27. The Oilers were a middle of the pack team last season in the NHL standings and they still have work to do this off-season to get better. Ottawa's Drake Batherson is an unrealistic trade target for the Oilers and Edmonton should be concentrating on forward trade targets on teams that were below them in last season's standings (if they can't find a solution this off-season in free agency). The Edmonton Oilers were a .500 hockey team in 2025-26. Media and fans need to dial back their expectations of the Oilers for the coming season, as it's a long way up to the top from the middle of the pack.