When the Edmonton Oilers start the 2010-11 season, they’ll ice a trio of 19-year-olds. First-overall pick Taylor Hall, World Juniors clutch man Jordan Eberle and Swedish phenom Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson are all set to make their NHL debuts with the NHL’s reigning worst-place team. Okay, Hall is technically 18-years-old, but he’ll turn 19 in November, so he gets a pass this time. He’s still the most likely of the trio to break camp with the Oilers anyway.

Hall is the much-anticipated youngster who edged out Tyler Myers as the top pick of the 2010 Entry Draft. With the Windsor Spitfires of the OHL, he won two consecutive Memorial Cups as well as two Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophies as tournament MVP. In three years, he scored 158 goals and 198 points in 227 career regular season and playoff games. His coming to Edmonton is not exactly at the Gretzky-esque level, but he certainly has high expectations.

Eberle is best known as being the Canadian hero in the 2009 World Juniors, scoring against Russia with 5.4 seconds left in the semi-finals, forcing overtime. Canada would go on to win the gold. In the gold medal game against the U.S. of the 2010 tournament, Eberle scored a pair of goals with less than three minutes to force overtime again. However, Canada would go on to lose the game. Paajarvi-Svensson, while not a large goal scorer, has had success both within Sweden and internationally. He’s played in three World Juniors and has two silvers and a bronze as well as the honor of being among the youngest players to ever skate in the Swedish Elite League.

The trio could make one of the best fourth-lines in hockey; or maybe one of the worst. They will enter the season relatively untested against each other and may bust quickly, but they could also grow together as a threesome line like the NHL hasn’t seen since the days of the Original Six. It all depends on how Head Coach Tom Renney decides to play them. Regardless, the Oilers are in need of some serious help, and Hall, Eberle and Paajarvi-Svensson might be the first wave of help.