With just two weeks remaining in the NHL’s regular season, the Edmonton Oilers have all but locked up their place in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for a sixth-straight season. Their magic number to clinch currently sits at just six points.

They’ll need some combination of just three wins in their final six games or three Nashville losses to get the ‘x’ next to their name.

Now, the focus shifts to who the team could face in the first round.

Let’s take a look at the candidates and their paths to potentially meeting the Oilers in round one.

Vegas Golden Knights

The most likely first-round opponent for the Oilers is the team that they eliminated in the second round of last year’s playoffs: the Vegas Golden Knights.

Vegas has had a very mediocre season. They’re already locked in to lose more games than they’ll win this season with a straight-up record of 34-42 with six games remaining. They’ve been propped up by a bad Pacific Division and a total of 16 loser points.

As it stands right now, they’re five points up on the San Jose Sharks, who have two games in hand but still have head-to-head matchups against the Oilers and Ducks on the schedule.

There is an outside shot that San Jose gets hot and passes Vegas, same with the Los Angeles Kings who also have 79 points but have played one more game.

Edmonton could help both of those teams by beating Vegas tomorrow night.

STRENGTHS: Their biggest strength will be their star power. No matter how bad the team looks right now, they still have Jack Eichel, Mark Stone, Mitch Marner and Shea Theodore on their roster. A strong supporting cast of players like........

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