BLOG: Playfair's career comes full circle with Oilers hiring

Edmonton's new Associate Coach was also the team's first-round, 20th-overall selection at the 1982 NHL Draft in Montreal

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By Ryan Frankson
@RyanFrankson EdmontonOilers.com

VANCOUVER, BC - The Oilers will add a promising young prospect to the organization on Friday when they make the eighth-overall selection during the first round of the 2019 NHL Draft.
The promising young prospect they selected 37 years ago with their first-rounder at the 1982 Draft in Montreal? None other than the same man they announced as their new Associate Coach on Thursday - Jim Playfair.

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