The Edmonton Oilers didn’t do anything major at the trade deadline.

They brought aboard Connor Murphy and Jason Dickinson, both defensive-minded players who can help at least shore up that weakness for the Oilers.

What they didn’t do was find more firepower to help Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.

That’s why The Athletic’s Mark Lazerus wrote after the deadline that one of the biggest losers of the week was McDavid himself.

“Connor Murphy and Jason Dickinson are good defenders who make Edmonton better at five-on-five and on the penalty kill, but they don’t add much scoring punch,” Lazerus writes. “It’s still all on McDavid and Leon Draisaitl to carry the load offensively.”

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McDavid was due to be out of his contract after this season, but he signed a two-year extension at a discount rate to stick around.

The Oilers don’t seem to have taken advantage of that relative discount.

“The Oilers needed a scoring winger and got two defense-first players,” Lazerus writes. “The Oilers needed a true No. 1 goalie and got Tristan Jarry.”

Where do they go from here? They’ll just have to hope McDavid’s greatness can carry them anyway.

“The extraordinary mediocrity of the Pacific Division means there’s still a path back to the final four, if not the Stanley Cup Final, for Edmonton,” Lazerus writes. “But Bowman didn’t do enough to make the Oilers feel like a real threat to the Colorados, Dallases, Minnesotas, Tampas, Carolinas and Buffalos of the world.”

The clock is ticking for McDavid. And this trade deadline, there was no effort to make it slow down.

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