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 smyth260
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Registered: November 2007
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| Kr55 wrote on Tue, 10 January 2023 12:49 |
We hired a guy with zero patience in 2015 when we needed some good development and patience. And then when we needed a wheeler and dealer to contend ASAP to ensure 5 years down the road McDrai will want to stay, we hire the guy that was only successful by patiently waiting for elite talent to drop on his lap from the draft. Out of necessity he had to go chasing and try to do things he's never had success doing, coupled with having no real clue how to actually fix the issues with the roster which makes his job that much more impossible for him to pull off.
Hard to imagine a worse execution by Katz, Lowe and Bobby Burgers.
And now we're at the point where I'm not sure there is a person alive that could fix this team in 2-3 years. And it HAS to be fixed in a couple years in a big way.
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The Oilers have never had a GM during the McDavid years who understood where the team was at and what the next steps should be.
Chiarelli seemed impatient because of some terrible contracts, but I really think he was just fumbling around. He only traded one 1st round pick for help, and that help was for Griffin Reinhart in his first summer. The years following, he did not trade any of his high tier prospects or picks to try to make a real push while McDavid was on an cheap entry level deal. That was a huge missed opportunity. We already had a rich matured/maturing group with Hall, Eberle, Nuge, Yakupov, Klefbom, Draisaitl, Nurse. I would argue actually that Chiarelli should have been more urgent. We were pushing for a division title in McDavid's 2nd year, and the best Chiarelli did was get David Desharnais at the deadlines.
Instead he swapped holes for bigger holes by trading roster players like Eberle and Hall, downgrading his team in the process. He was somehow hoping that would improve the team.
The point in time where I think the Oilers had the most assets to build a great team was when they were going up to draft Puljularvi with the 4th overall pick. They should have never made that pick. They already had all of those players above, along with Sekera and Talbot. They did not need to add another high pick prospect to their collection. We should have made all our best prospects and picks available at that point to go all in for McDavid's 2nd and 3rd year of ELC. Chiarelli never went all in. He just seemed to do dumb things without much logic of where the Oilers were.
Years later, in comes Ken Holland. I feel like he has done more of the same. He has given out too much money or term for low impact players (Foegele, Kassian, Chiasson, everybody like Shore gets 2 years). He has not traded any of his 1st round picks or prospects to make the team better. He has went long and expensive on a fairly unproven goalie like Koskinen. His deadline acquisitions have been the likes of Athanasiou, Ennis, Green, Kulak, and Kulikov. Certainly better than Desharnais, but spending 2nd round picks galore for not much movement of the needle.
Nobody wants to sell the farm for McDavid/Draisaitl. None of our GMs realize the opportunity they have here or even what timeline they are on. Now we stare down the end of Draisaitl's deal largely in the same place as 5 years ago, counting on the emergence of Philip Broberg to save a team with Connor McDavid. We stockpile Holloway, Bourgault, and Reid Schaefer who are not helping at all while we contemplate about the end of these 2 players in Edmonton.
Ken Holland will trade his 1st round pick this year. It will be out of desperation. It will be because they accidentally made the Western Conference finals last season and expectations are high. The best we can hope for is that he lucks into some good trades. Otherwise, we are looking at the end of Draisaitl's contract in a couple years, probably following McDavid leaving, and back to square one. As always, the Oilers cup hopes are to win one despite management.
[Updated on: Tue, 10 January 2023 18:38]
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