RDOilerfan wrote on Fri, 16 March 2018 10:13

Adam wrote on Fri, 16 March 2018 09:53 RDOilerfan wrote on Fri, 16 March 2018 08:06 Some of Chia's big moves have been questionable but he seems to do well at the draft. Jones and Bear are later round picks. You hear good things about Jones and Bear looks like he's getting close. People keep raving about Safin. This Maksimov looks like he's got something. He's in junior but it's always good to hear players getting better and better rather than the other way. I'm really hesitant to congratulate anyone on the draft before it has played out a little more. Yes, people are excited about Bear and Jones - but it wasn't so long ago that people were raving about Stu McGregor's picks. I remember people crowing about the pipeline of defence with Marincin and Musil and Gernat and Simpson... It's too early to slam picks or applaud them. Hopefully Bear continues on the right path - he looks good so far. And hopefully the team doesn't believe that because they have one good young defenceman who's capable of moving the puck that it suddenly frees them up to liquidate another one for lesser assets like they always do... Adam, I don't expect you to give Chia credit for anything which it totally fine. Chia could get Sekera to waive his no move, pull off a jedi mind trick on Dorian and get him to agree to take Sekera and a pick for Karlsson. Then the Oilers could sign Karlsson to the exact same money as Sekera and you would complain that the pick was too high, the Oilers weakened their left side and the term of the deal was too long.

I thought Adam gave a pretty balanced response.

You can't really applaud or slam at the moment.

His Glorious Bastard example was a damn good one too. History and statistics indicates the drafting then was a unholy tire fire, but we were all "Oil Changing" it up big time back then.

[Updated on: Fri, 16 March 2018 13:36]

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