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mightyreasoner wrote on Tue, 09 April 2019 12:06 |
RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 09 April 2019 11:54 |
mightyreasoner wrote on Tue, 09 April 2019 11:47 |
RDOilerfan wrote on Tue, 09 April 2019 10:38 | I don't want anything to do with the Russian. Russian players are always a gamble. The Oilers need to draft a guy who will forsure be a good player and who will compete. When JP fell to them at #4, on paper he was the bigger, faster, more skilled guy than say Tkachuk but Tkachuk flat out plays his bag off most nights and does what it takes to succeed. The Oilers did not do right by JP development wise so they have to wear much of the blame. I am hopeful there is still a decent player in JP but on a lot of nights he didn't compete. He was too much of a perimeter guy. I know he was in over his head but that shouldn't stop you from competing.
So they need to be careful. Assuming they aren't in the top 2, I'd be all over Byram if they could get him.
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I mean, I could name a lot of Canadian players that didnt make it because of compete level.
I also am pretty sure Tampa Bay is glad they didn't take this approach with Kucherov and Vasilevsky.
I'm more along the lines of evaluating players based on their own merit. I don't know enough about this year's draft class to make an informed choice, but I'm not eliminating any based on nationality alone.
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It's not so much the nationality but the KHL. He will be a highly touted Russian, those guys get paid in the KHL. My concern is if things don't go exactly like he wants like as an example if he comes over and the Oilers decide he needs AHL time he could say no way am I making 90K riding a bus in the minors when I can go the KHL and make millions. It could happen. Look at the problems the Preds had with Radulov.
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I do wonder what would happen if the NHL teams looked at the KHL as a developmental league instead of a competitive one. I think most Russians who have the ability to play in the NHL want to... it is a better league and there is the opportunity to generally have a better quality of life.
But if you have an 18-year-old prospect who is getting good ice time and is getting paid better than toiling in the AHL, is his development that worse off playing against men in the KHL than against men in the AHL? The NHL team doesn't have the ability to recall the player, and perhaps not the same hands-on approach to development... but I look at guys like Puljujarvi and Yakupov and wonder if the KHL (especially during the lockout year) wouldn't have been a positive for a year or two. Maybe they are looking at it wrong.
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You could be right. The problem in my opinion is the style of game seems to be so different plus the ice surface is so much different.
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