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Oilers have 1 trade piece to land one of these 3 major needs before deadline<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Edmonton Oilers<\/a> would like to improve by Friday’s NHL trade deadline.<\/p>\n

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The problem is that they don’t have a ton of great assets to trade away. Except for maybe one.<\/p>\n

The Athletic’s Allan Mitchell<\/a> writes that Matt Savoie is the guy the Oilers could try and use to extract value in a deal.<\/p>\n

And this is what Mitchell says the target should be in a Savoie trade: “The target could be a bigger winger, a right-handed defenseman or a No. 3 center.”<\/p>\n

Well, one player for three options. The Oilers are unlikely to get more than one of those things for Savoie, but one is better than none.<\/p>\n

“Oilers general manager Stan Bowman doesn\u2019t have a massive number of valuable trade pieces at this year\u2019s deadline,” Mitchell writes. “If the goal is a major addition to the roster, the ask will be painful. Bowman will attempt to make a deal with the 2027 first-round selection, but Savoie is the one young player with enough value to secure a top-flight acquisition at the deadline.”<\/p>\n

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Savoie is 22 years old and was the No. 9 overall pick by the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> in the 2022 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n

This season, Savoie has played 62 games at the NHL level and has 10 goals and 15 assists.<\/p>\n

He’s also a great penalty killer.<\/p>\n

“Savoie has the lowest rate of any Oilers forward when it comes to making mistakes on the PK that lead to Grade A shots against,”\u00a0recently wrote David Staples of the Edmonton Journal<\/a>. “In 90 minutes of penalty kill time on ice, Savoie has made just 12 mistakes leading to Grade A shots against, the lowest rate of anyone on the team, just 0.27 mistakes on Grade A shots per two minutes of PK time. Compare that to veteran Mattias Janmark who has made 25 such mistakes in just 64 PK minutes, a rate of 0.78 per two minutes.”<\/p>\n

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That’s a player another team could want, especially considering his youth. So we’ll see if the Oilers can make something happen.<\/p>\n

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