Quoting: Goilersfan1215
That depends if St Louis scouting likes a RHD available at 10 OV. Oilers are trying to win and compete next season. St Louis traded Paul Stastny at the deadline and have a great crop of forwards coming up
True, except the vast majority of upper tier (not Norris tier) defenseman do not really fill the top 4 role until age 21 or so.
And STL’s main core is in the 25-29 age group right now.
So unless STL was super sure they could pluck a drew Doughty at 10OA, they’re taking a substantial downgrade for 1-3 years, which would be fine except that really screws with the Schenn, Schwartz, Tarasenko, Pietrangelo, etc group.
Would totally be down if STL had even a wing and a prayer at RHD, but that cupboard is super empty right now, and I doubt any 10OA pick could slot in next season nor find any serviceable option who would not want more than 1-2 yrs of term.
I just don’t think it would be fair to the majority of the team to downgrade such an important position for 10OA.
Maybe a 3-way where a rhd heads to STL, idk, but I doubt Parayko goes without some type of replacement coming back.