EDMONTON — It’s really not so much about the draft this weekend for the Edmonton Oilers, so much as it is about another milepost in their limited window to shape a roster.

Lineups are being formed across the National Hockey League, and nobody is under more pressure to fill roster gaps than the general manager whose team may well be looking at the final stages of the Connor McDavid era.

The Oilers will take second-, third-, sixth- and seventh-round picks into the weekend, but what are the chances they draft four players?

General manager Stan Bowman would trade ‘em all for the right goalie. He’d move any of them to make a Darnell Nurse trade amenable.

While GMs in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are casually mulling a Nurse trade as one of several options, Bowman has set this thing in motion and knows he can’t bring Nurse back into his dressing room this September. He’s in a hurry to close the Nurse deal — Bowman needs to know how much cap space he has by July 1 — while all the GMs on the other end of the phone are saying, “OK, I’ll make some calls on a few other things I have going, then I’ll get back to you. Maybe…”

Meanwhile, Bowman could sign goalie Connor Ingram today for the right money — we are told........

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