Oilers Free Agent Targets

Here's a potential Oilers depth chart:

Hall - Nuge - Eberle

Pouliout - McDavid - Yakupov

(Free Agent B) - Lander - Purcell

Klinkhamer - Gordan - Hendricks

Draisaitl

Fayne - (Free Agent A)

Klefbom - Shultz

Ference - Gryba

Nurse - Reinhart

Talbot

(Free Agent C) or Scrivens

Candidates for Free Agent A:

1. Cody Franson

2. Mike Green

3. Andrej Sekera

4. Paul Martin

Candidates for Free Agent B:

1. Jiri Tlusty

2. Blake Comeau

3. Daniel Winnik

4. Sean Bergenheim

5. Curtis Glencross

6. Patrick Eaves

Candidates for Free Agent C:

1. Karri Ramo

2. Thomas Greiss

Summary:

Please note that these players are in order based on potential price, type of player Oilers are looking for, and age. They are not in order of skill. For Free Agent A spot I was looking at anyone who could play top 4 minutes. For Free agent B I was looking for big wingers who can chip in on the score sheet every now and then. And For Free Agent C I was looking for backup goalies that have starter potential, and will challenge Talbot for the crease at times. Karri Ramo would give us a good 1B option. However I still would not rule out keeping Scrivens.

2015 Mock Draft

Pick	Team	Player  Name  and Position	Notes/Wildcards
1	EDM	Connor McDavid                                         F	HELL YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!
2	BUF	Jack Eichel                                         F
3	ARZ	Dylan Strome                                    F
4	TOR	Mitch Marner                                   F
5	CAR	Noah Hanifan                                   D	Hanifan may drop like Fowler
6	NJD	Mathew Barzal                                 F	Lawson Crouse, Mikko Rantanen
7	PHI	Ivan Provorov                                   D
8	CBJ	Lawson Crouse                                 F	Zach Werenski
9	SJ	Pavel  Zacha                                      F
10	COL	Zach Werenski                                  D
11	FLA	Mikko Rantanen                               F
12	DAL	Kyle Connor                                       F
13	LAK	Timo Meir                                          F
14	BOS	Evgeni  Svechnikov                           F
15	CGY	Nick Merkley                                     F	Travis Konecny
16	EDM	Thomas Chabot                                 F	Oilers likely to move this pick
17	WIN	Colin White                                        F	Travis Konecny
18	OTT	Jakub Zboril                                       D
19	DET	Travis Konecny                                  F	Oliver Kylington
20	MIN	Paul Bittner                                       F	Ilya Samsonov, Joel Eriksson EK
21	BUF	Daniel Sprong                                    F	(Potentionally traded) WC: Oliver Kylington
22	WSH	Brock Boeser                                     F
23	VAN	Jansen Harkins                                  F
24	TOR	Brandon Carlo                                  D	Oliver Kylington
25	WIN	Joel Eriksson EK                                F	Jake Debrusk
26	MTL	Denis Guryanov                                F
27	ANA	Jake Debrusk                                     F
28	TB	Jeremy Roy                                       D	Gabriel  Carlsson
29	PHI	Jack Roslovic                                     F	Filip Chlapik
30	ARZ	Oliver Kylington                               D

Summary:

    Some bold moves include Provorov going to Philly and New Jersey taking Barzal. I understand that the Flyers have a ton of defensive prospects but I believe that Provorov will be too good for Philly to pass up, and will elect to use their pick at 29 to stock the forward shelf. I know right away that Barzal rising to 6th overall is controversial, I could easily see the Devils going with Crouse, Rantanen, or Zacha as well. However my gut feeling is that they go with Barzal, the best draft eligible forward in the WHL. I think Columbus will ultimately not be able to pass up Crouse, even though they would like a defencemen. If they decide to pick based on their needs rather than than picking the best available player, they'll take Werenski. But I don't think they'll pass up Crouse. Oliver Kylington is a player to watch in this draft, I can see him going anywhere from the top 20 to the top 40. I feel that Arizona will be the team to snag him at 30.

   I would like to see the Oilers trade their 16th overall pick and one or two more of their picks in the top 3 rounds. If they lose out on the Talbot sweepstakes, and the 33rd pick alone isn't enough for Lack, the Oilers could trade 16 and 33 to Vancouver for Eddie Lack and 23. A solid defencemen like Chabot or Jeremy Roy would still be available at 23. Either that or trade the 16th overall pick for a defencemen, and then trade 33 and a 3rd rounder for either Talbot (I don't think this would be the highest bid on him, I think whoever gets Talbot is going to have to overpay bigtime) or Lack.