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Edmonton Oilers

27 reports in the 2026-27 edition.

Frederik Andersen

Frederik Andersen

#30

G · Edmonton Oilers

One of the most efficient goaltenders of his generation, now thirty-six, coming off the worst save percentage of his career.

Evan Bouchard

Evan Bouchard

#2

D · Edmonton Oilers

A 95-point defenseman with the hardest shot on the team and a turnover in him that will take a year off your life.

34

Colton Dach

C · Edmonton Oilers

A 6-4 winger with a decent set of hands who has spent three years being almost ready.

Jason Dickinson

Jason Dickinson

#16

C · Edmonton Oilers

A defensive center who has made a long career out of the shifts nobody wants and the faceoffs nobody counts.

Leon Draisaitl

Leon Draisaitl

#29

C · Edmonton Oilers

One of the two or three most dangerous goal-scorers alive, and he does it at a pace that looks like he is barely trying.

Mattias Ekholm

Mattias Ekholm

#14

D · Edmonton Oilers

The defenseman who makes mistakes disappear — quietly, twenty minutes a night, against the other team's best.

49

Ty Emberson

D · Edmonton Oilers

A steady, unspectacular right-shot defenseman doing exactly what a third pair is supposed to do.

Trent Frederic

Trent Frederic

#10

C · Edmonton Oilers

A heavy, useful bottom-six forward coming off a year in which almost nothing went in.

Isaac Howard

Isaac Howard

#53

LW · Edmonton Oilers

A Hobey Baker winner in his first professional season, small and skilled, with everything still ahead of him.

Zach Hyman

Zach Hyman

#18

LW · Edmonton Oilers

A fifth-round pick who made himself a 30-goal scorer by being willing to stand in the one place nobody else wants to stand.

Mattias Janmark

Mattias Janmark

#13

C · Edmonton Oilers

Fast, honest and almost entirely without offense — a coach's fourth-liner who has outlasted most of his draft class.

Tristan Jarry

Tristan Jarry

#35

G · Edmonton Oilers

A two-time All-Star whose game has come apart badly enough that he was sent to the minors two years ago.

Max Jones

Max Jones

#46

LW · Edmonton Oilers

A big, straight-ahead energy winger who plays eight minutes and makes all of them uncomfortable.

21

Mathieu Joseph

RW · Edmonton Oilers

Speed, penalty-killing minutes, and a scoring touch that has been trending the wrong way for three years.

Kasperi Kapanen

Kasperi Kapanen

#42

RW · Edmonton Oilers

Blazing speed, a decent shot, and eleven years of people wondering why it has not added up to more.

Devon Levi

Devon Levi

#27

G · Edmonton Oilers

A small, brilliant, deeply unconventional goaltender whose college numbers have never once translated.

Connor McDavid

Connor McDavid

#97

C · Edmonton Oilers

The fastest player in the league is also its most patient one; the danger is not the speed itself but what he does at the end of it.

Shakir Mukhamadullin

Shakir Mukhamadullin

#85

D · Edmonton Oilers

A long, mobile 6-4 Russian defenseman who has just started to look like the first-round pick he was.

Connor Murphy

Connor Murphy

#5

D · Edmonton Oilers

Thirteen years of shutdown minutes on bad teams, arriving here with a body that has taken a great deal of punishment.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

#93

C · Edmonton Oilers

A first-overall pick who became something more useful than a star: the player who makes whichever line he is put on work.

Vasily Podkolzin

Vasily Podkolzin

#92

RW · Edmonton Oilers

A tenth-overall pick who looked like a bust in Vancouver and has quietly turned into exactly the winger a skill team needs.

Alec Regula

Alec Regula

#75

D · Edmonton Oilers

A 6-4 right-shot defenseman whose career has been mostly injuries and whose last look did not go well.

Josh Samanski

Josh Samanski

#81

C · Edmonton Oilers

An undrafted German center who went from the DEL to a two-way NHL role in a single year.

Matt Savoie

Matt Savoie

#22

C · Edmonton Oilers

Undersized, entirely unbothered by it, and the most promising young forward the organization has produced in a decade.

Ryan Shea

Ryan Shea

#6

D · Edmonton Oilers

A fourth-round pick who spent six years in the minors and then, at twenty-eight, played eighty games and was plus-thirty.

Spencer Stastney

Spencer Stastney

#24

D · Edmonton Oilers

A small, mobile seventh defenseman who has been on the edge of a full-time job for four years.

Jake Walman

Jake Walman

#96

D · Edmonton Oilers

A skating, shooting, slightly reckless defenseman who was a spare part on three teams before anyone noticed how good he had gotten.

How they were used

2025-26 · 82 games

Measured from shift charts at five-on-five, not projected. Units are built from the strongest partnership outward and ordered by how much they were used; the percentage is the share of the first player’s five-on-five ice time spent alongside each linemate. A low number means the club never settled on a combination. Players who have gone are marked — either to another club, or off an NHL roster altogether, which covers retirement and an unsigned summer alike. They are a fair guide to the holes this club has to fill.

Forwards

Second line

C Jack Roslovic now TOR 26%

Third line

C Adam Henrique off the roster 31%

Fourth line

L Andrew Mangiapane now CHI 12%

Defence

First pair

Second pair

D Darnell Nurse now SJS 1550m

Third pair

D Brett Kulak now COL 33%