Frederic Looks Shaky, and Vegas Still Holds the Oilers’ Cards

Trent Frederic’s situation is starting to feel less like a clean fit and more like a problem the Oilers keep trying to talk themselves into solving. The other wrinkle is bigger, because Vegas appears to have control over how Edmonton’s path forward actually plays out. That is the kind of leverage that turns a normal offseason into a front-office headache, especially when a contender already knows every misstep gets magnified.