Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin 2010<unk>11 ya kawo sabon kallo ga Edmonton Oilers line-up, lokacin da aka zaɓi Shawn Horcoff don maye gurbin Ethan Moreau a matsayin kyaftin din kungiyar. Horcoff ya zama dan wasan Oilers mafi tsayi a wannan lokacin. Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle, da Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson duk sun yi wasan farko na NHL don ƙungiyar. Duk da zuwan matasa masu hazaka, Edmonton har yanzu sun sami kansu a ƙarshen matsayi. A cikin ƙoƙari na samun damar samun damar da za a zaba, an sayar da Dustin Penner daga Oilers zuwa Los Angeles a ranar 28 ga Fabrairun 2011, a musayar Colten Teubert, zagaye na farko na zagaye a 2011 (wanda aka yi amfani da shi don zaɓar Oscar Klefbom) da kuma zagaye na uku na zagaye a 2012
Ka yi haƙuri. A ƙarshen kakar wasa, Oilers sun kasance a ƙarshen matsayi kuma sun sami damar zaɓar na farko a gaba ɗaya a cikin shirin shigar da NHL na 2011. Oilers sun zaɓi Ryan Nugent-Hopkins tare da zaɓi na farko na gaba ɗaya, tare da wasu "blue chip" masu yiwuwa. A lokacin hutun shekara ta 2011, ƙungiyar ta sake yin matakai da yawa don ƙarfafa laifi da tsaro, ta sake samun Ryan Smyth da aka fi so daga Los Angeles don Colin Fraser da zagaye na bakwai na zagaye. Hakanan ƙungiyar ta yi ciniki tare da Anaheim Ducks don samun Andy Sutton don Kurtis Foster. Sheldon Souray, wanda ya taka leda a kakar wasa ta 2010-11 a gasar Hockey ta Amurka (AHL) tare da Hershey Bears, an saya shi daga shekarar da ta gabata na kwangilarsa. Waɗannan motsi, haɗe da sa hannun Eric Belanger, Cam Barker, Ben Eager, da Darcy Hordichuk, sun canza yanayin ƙungiyar, don ƙara "grit da tauri". Koyaya, Oilers sun sake kasa cancanta don wasan karshe na karo na shida a jere, yayin da suka gama na 14 a taron yamma.