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ROCKET TO THE TOP

Before battling for the Hart, as he’s doing again this season, Leon Draisaitl was sent back to the WHL for more seasoning
ROCKET TO THE TOP
LEON DRAISAITL LETS OUT a cathartic sigh as he ponders a question he has clearly fielded before. It concerns a controversy he was involved in, regarding the 2015 world juniors and the fact the Edmonton Oilers didn’t release him to play for Germany, the minnow hockey nation that would be relegated by Switzerland in the last days of the holiday classic in Toronto. “I didn’t have anything to say, and I didn’t want to say anything about it,” Draisaitl said. “Either way it would have worked out.” Being a team with many passionate fans, Edmonton can’t sneak anything under the radar, and many pundits and boosters wondered why the Oilers wouldn’t let Draisaitl suit up for his country, when the Oilers ended up sending him back to the WHL days after…
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