from David Staples of the Edmonton Journal,

This just in from Oilers insider Bob Stauffer, the team employee and CHED radio host, who is in Buffalo covering the draft combine and was speaking to fellow CHED radio host Reid Wilkins on Friday evening. The two talked of the Oilers pursuing unrestricted free agent Milan Lucic and maybe moving out Taylor Hall or Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to get a top d-man....

If Lucic goes to free agency, Stauffer said Edmonton would be interested. “Milan Lucic is sort of the physical embodiment of what Peter Chiarelli stated from the get-go needed to happen in Edmonton. He wanted to get bigger, more competitive players… I do think if he goes to free agency the Oilers are going to have a solid opportunity to bring him in, but they’re going to have to move somebody out in the process because they’ve got to address that back-end as well.”...

“So do I think Taylor Hall could be traded? I don’t want to see Taylor Hall traded but he gets you the most. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins gets you the second most. To me, right now, Jordan Eberle, I would say it’s better than 50 per cent chance one of Hall or Nugent-Hopkins goes. I would suggest to you it’s less than a 15 per cent chance at this stage that Jordan Eberle goes. It’s incumbent on the Edmonton to use one of the $6 million guys upfront and use that as asset to acquire the defence…If it’s me, I don’t even trade down at this draft. I take Tkachuk…. It’s quite apparent Matthew Tkachuk has closed the gap on Jesse Puljujarvi something fierce here over the last few weeks.”

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