VANCOUVER, BC - Brick by brick.
Blueliner by blueliner.
Like Rome, National Hockey League defence cores cannot be built in one day and Oilers President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Ken Holland knows it, selecting AIK (SWE-II) defenceman Philip Broberg eighth-overall at the 2019 NHL Draft in Vancouver.
DRAFT: Holland building the back end with Broberg
"Those teams that go for long playoff runs have good defence, deep defence, big defence. We're going to build a good, big and deep defence," said Ken Holland