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 Adam
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Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Kr55 wrote on Tue, 27 August 2019 09:14 |
| Adam wrote on Tue, 27 August 2019 09:09 |
| Kr55 wrote on Tue, 27 August 2019 08:38 |
He better light it up there. If he is just putting up Yak-like stats (5-6th best forward on his KHL team)...well, kid is almost done with his NHL potential.
Side note, Rishaug was just on the radio calling out Chia for giving guarantees to Pulju's camp on how limited his AHL time would be during his ELC. Sigh...that's some classic Chia.
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Oh Rishaug - how fast we can bite the hand that feeds us. Chiarelli fed him scoops in exchange for favourable coverage, but now that Chia's gone, Rishaug's happy to throw him under the bus. I suspect Rishaug isn't even a defender of the Hall for Larsson swap now.
Nothing really changing here other than some certainty as to where Puljujarvi starts the season. There's apparently an out clause until December 1. I really hope the kid plays well.
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Pulju was IMO the worst case of management being a pushover with an ELC prospect. At least with Drai we had no other C options and we desperately needed him. And MacT still demoted him before the RFA year was burned. Pulju... He was just hanging around not being used at all and we just sat there and waited for the RFA year to be burned before sending him down.
Oilers management was bad for a long long time. But Chia cranked it up to 11.
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Both years we saw the same things - the Oilers at draft time SAID the right things: "We want to let this player develop." "He probably doesn't start the year in the NHL."
But in reality they started preparing for him to make it. I think they felt it's an even better story if it seems like he forces his way on to the team.
In both cases they made way for the player. There were lots of center options available in the summer of 2014. Their eventual fix, Derek Roy, was unsigned until December. The Oilers ignored all that, meaning that Draisaitl had to beat out one of Anton Lander or Will Acton in order to make the NHL from his first camp. The team's centers out of camp were Nugent-Hopkins, Draisaitl, Arcobello, Gordon and Acton.
It was more of the same in 2016. Chiarelli said that Puljujarvi's availability in the draft helped to make Taylor Hall expendable. He didn't sign any wingers of note that summer other than college free agent Caggiula (who also made the team, showing just how weak that position was). The most notable player who Caggiula and Puljujarvi beat out for opening night roster spots was Anton Slepyshev - and despite the fact that Puljujarvi didn't have a great training camp at all, the team cleared room for him just before the season started by trading Nail Yakupov for nothing of note and allowing Kris Versteeg to sign with Calgary rather than inking the free agent tryout (who HAD had a decent training camp). I believe Versteeg even commented that the Oilers had indicated they wanted to give the kids more ice time when he was talking about why he chose to go to the Flames.
There's always this talk that maybe there was a side-deal, but side-deals aren't enforceable, and a good GM and coach aren't going to lose the player by simply doing the right thing for him. It would have meant actually communicating with the player and the agent - which is a major issue for this franchise, but that's no excuse.
If that meant he plays his 18 year old season on loan to a European team? So be it. The Oilers blindly continued on while a player floundered. Then they were inconsistent in their approach ever since. They never let him play any extended period in the AHL - always bouncing him back up to the NHL the first time he had a good game or two.
They allowed things to get so bad that we are where we are now - having wasted a fourth overall pick and blown it on a player ahead of his 21st birthday.
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