Stan Bowman recognized the Edmonton Oilers needed more defensive-minded players last season when he acquired Connor Murphy and Jason Dickinson at the deadline. He acquired Murphy for a second-round pick, and then landed Dickinson, and Colton Dach — a young player with tenacity and grit, and sneaky good hands around the net — for a…

On Friday’s episode of Oilersnation Radio, we were talking about the Darnell Nurse rumours and some of the free agent decisions sitting on the Oilers’ to-do list, and the conversation eventually landed on Connor Murphy in a way that I don’t think I had thought about before. If Nurse is actually on his way out…