What is going on with the top line on this team?

It took Trent Frederic being moved off a line with Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl (could there be a more coveted spot in all of hockey?) for him to finally find his way onto the stats sheet.

Centering the fourth line, of all things, the physical forward was sent in on a breakaway by Kasperi Kapanen at the midway mark of Tuesday’s game to score what would stand as the winning goal, not to mention his first regular-season tally as a member of the Oilers.

(As an aside, it was the second lead pass by Kasperi Kapinen to put a fourth-line centre in behind the defence in as many games, after Noah Philp scored his first NHL goal against the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday).

And as for the top line, McDavid and Draisaitl ended up getting spl

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