McKenzie: Canadiens not good fit for Oilers on trade front

Bob McKenzie was on Montreal’s TSN 690 on Wednesday morning.

On the possibility of seeing David Perron traded to the Montreal Canadiens:

"Well, what I would say is I don’t see a fit between the Oilers and the Canadiens. I think the primary focus for Craig MacTavish – I’ve got to be careful how I use the word ‘primary’ because when you’re as bad as the Oilers are right now and you’ve got goaltending woes and you’ve got defensemen underachieving and you’re playing a borderline NHLer in Mark Arcobello and a kid in Leon Draisaitl as potentially on any given night your No. 2 and No. 3 centres, you’ve got lots of holes to fill.

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“But if centre is the area that Craig MacTavish is trying to address, and trying to parlay – the strength they’ve got is they’ve got a surplus of wingers in Edmonton – then I’m not sure Montreal is a good trading partner because right now, they don’t have a good centre that would be a natural fit for the Edmonton Oilers. But we’ll see what happens over the course of the day."

Source: TSN 690/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey