Oilers: Draisaitl assumes right-wing position alongside McDavid

You can only twist a coach’s arm so long.
It took Edmonton Oilers head man Todd McLellan seven pre-season games, but there was Leon Draisaitl skating with Connor McDavid on a regular shift, not just on the power play, on Thursday at practice.
As usual, McLellan cautioned not to read too much into that with one exhibition game left because that’s always been McLellan’s fall-back position and he likes to move players around, but off the 60-minute skate Thursday, Ryan Nugent-Hopki