Bouchard's ceiling is looking like a a #6 guy at the moment. Boy, has he regressed hard.
In addition to being a terribly constructed and horribly flawed roster, this team is beyond boring to watch as well.
Most teams that are good only have one or two "Bouchard" players - that is highly talented and skilled, but dumb as shit and incapable of defending or playing with consistent structure. Good teams have players around him that know what they're doing so that his flaws can be hidden and his strengths can be taken advantage of.
Problem with the Oilers is we are stocked top to bottom with the skilled, but stupid player especially on defense. Nurse, Bouchard and Barrie are all various degrees of talented, but insanely stupid. Up front we have Puljujarvi and Yamo leading the way in this department on a constant basis, but there are others too that I won't name that periodically decide to be dumb too. Nuge has blown back checks for goals against in back to back games for example. Leon is still addicted to over passing and pissing pucks up at both blue lines.
The only players that can honestly be reasonably relied upon to not do incredibly stupid things on a regular basis are McDavid, Hyman (even though he has his own defensive warts sometimes)..... and I think that might be it honestly.
Besides everything else that's wrong with the team, collective hockey IQ has to be 32/32 in the NHL. We are the dumbest team in the league by a mile and certainly the dumbest among teams that are supposed to be good.