{"id":949035,"date":"2026-10-28T05:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949035\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T05:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:56:21","slug":"are-the-edmonton-oilers-a-one-line-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949035\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Edmonton Oilers a one-line team?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">The <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/oilersnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> find themselves in a predicament. They have the <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/players\/nhl-stats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL\u2019s top-two point leaders in their lineup<\/a> \u2014 Connor McDavid with 34 and Leon Draisaitl with 24 \u2014 but beyond their linemate in Vasily Podkolzin and defenseman Evan Bouchard, the Oilers have no one with more than five points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">On Tuesday\u2019s episode of <a class=\"text-secondary underline underline-offset-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sw-baNsR4Hc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" hreflang=\"en\">Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Tyler Yaremchuk and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton are joined by former NHL video coach Steve Peters to discuss the Oilers\u2019 start to the season and how long they can find success without any depth in their lineup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Tyler Yaremchuk: Is there any signs of the Oilers not just being a one-line team? Is there any depth? Or do we have to wait for injuries? I know Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is back in the lineup, as was Zach Hyman, but it\u2019s got to be concerning. Is there potential for growth or do they need to make trades and move people? <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Steve Peters: Luckily for them, they\u2019ve been able to hold the top spot, even with all these injuries and they\u2019ve been able to push their way through with the top of the line scoring. But it\u2019s not sustainable. You cannot continue to count on those two \u2026 I mean, they can, they\u2019ve done it year after year after year, but you see how they start to get tired in games. Man, it\u2019s hard to put that much pressure on those guys. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You need secondary scoring. Hyman came back into the lineup, then he\u2019s out again. Jason Dickinson is a guy they need in the lineup, Matthew Savoie is a guy they need in the lineup. They need these depth guys to be healthy, but they\u2019re not coming back anytime soon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">Can they get by and put the band-aid on it while they have these injuries? Clearly, they\u2019ve shown they can, so you can\u2019t hit the panic button. But there\u2019s going to be a time in November and December when if you still have these big holes in the lineup, it\u2019s a concern. <\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg\">You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here\u2026<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Edmonton Oilers find themselves in a predicament. They have the NHL\u2019s top-two point leaders in their lineup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-949035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}