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 Adam
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Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
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| Skookum Jim wrote on Tue, 15 March 2022 16:54 |
| benv wrote on Tue, 15 March 2022 15:22 |
You have to be careful about criticism in a vacuum--in other words, do other teams really do much better?
I picked a team at random (got St. Louis) and looked at their 4th and later round picks and later during the same period. Here's the ones with NHL games:
Jani Hakanpaa (4th round 2010): 117 games
Petteri Lindbohm (6th round 2012): 42 games
Ville Husso (4th round 2014): 41 games
Austin Poganski (4th round 2014): 22 games
Sammy Blais (6th round 2014): 133 games
Glenn Gawdin (4th round 2015): 9 games
Niko Mikkola (5th round 2015): 79 games
Alexei Toropchenko (4th round 2017): 9 games
Joel Hofer (4th round 2018): 2 games
Lots of fringe players, but hardly anyone even on the level of Bear or Jones (Blais is the only one I've heard of). I think the perception of Oiler late round draft futility is a bit overblown. I have a feeling they're not that much worse than most teams and converting them to NHLers.
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Oilers have done better recently.. Petrov and Tullio are both near top in OHL scoring (8th and 11th respectively). Petrov was 6th round 180 overall, Tullio was 5th round 126th overall.
Still not in the NHL, but good signs.. I expect Petrov to make it for sure, kid is 6'-2" with a snipe laser shot..
Then we have Carter Savoie.. 4th round 100th overall.. one of the top NCAA scorers for 2 seasons.
he might be another depending on skating, I haven't seen him play much, can't determine his skating, but if he's at least NHL average he's a player...
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I tend not to believe the hype until they've started showing something at the AHL level at least. Too many of these over the years where 1-2 years out from draft day the Oilers media is talking them up, only to have them disappear again.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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