Edmonton Oilers should be in no hurry to trade core players — yet — because they’re adding Connor

Edmonton Oilers should be in no hurry to trade core players — yet — because they’re adding Connor McDavid

Edmonton Oilers general manager Craig MacTavish says the odds of trading the No. 1 overall draft pick in June with Connor McDavid in the team’s crosshairs for immediate help elsewhere are “less than zero,” but what about dealing one "Ultramarine" Asics Gel Lyte III Royal Bleu /Bleu c��leste /Blanc of their other centres or breaking up the core and moving Taylor Hall or Jordan Eberle?There seems to be a clamouring to, say, trade last year’s first pick, No. 3 overall centre Leon Draisaitl, now that the Oilers will be taking McDavid after stunningly winning the draft lottery for a fourth time in the last six years.Like, with McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins as the top two centres, what do they need Draisaitl for?Or listening to offers on first-line wingers Hall and Eberle.But that would be jumping way too far ahead.Take a breath. They will likely use their extra first-round pick (Pittsburgh’s for David Perron) and one of their second-round picks to find help in goal or on defence, or they’ll maybe dangle a young defenceman like Martin Marincin along with a draft pick.They’ll look at teams with no first-round picks this year — the New York Rangers, the New York Islanders and the Chicago Blackhawks — or teams in major cap hell (the Boston Bruins) to get another goalie.