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The Oilers are six games into their 2019-20 campaign and yet already have plenty of positives for GM Ken Holland to draw on. SportsnetSpec looks at what they are.

, turning $6 million in dead money into a player who has eight goals already, and can reasonably be expected to return to his normal 20 to 25 goal production — a number that is at least commensurate with what Neal and Lucic are being paid.

Over the last six NHL seasons, Edmonton ranked dead last in the NHL in penalty kill. The unit has crushed Oilers fans’ dreams, with a sub-79 per cent success rate since 2013-14. Sheahan wins draws, another bugaboo for previous Oilers teams. This was a huge Band-Aid applied by Holland.Persson is quiet, doesn’t have a point, and only plays 16 minutes per night. But remember when Adam Larsson went down with a broken fibula on opening night, and they talked about everyone “stepping up” to compensate? Well, Persson stepped in on Oscar Klefbom’s right side, fresh out of the Swedish team Vaxjo, and he has been seamless.

 

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Spec Persson, Bear, Benning, Russell, Larsson all Chia acquisitions. Cost them a HART winner and a 5th rounder. No real point(Chia is a lunatic) but he def had a big impact on the current blueline.

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