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 Skoobz
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| oilfan94 wrote on Wed, 04 August 2021 11:06 |
| Rabbeyick wrote on Wed, 04 August 2021 12:02 |
yeah you have 2 year deal on an old past it guy when you could give a chance to a skilled player with potential in that position. id prefer the team looked forward rather sign a guy who will be 35 in december. check out his tape. kid can play.
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Is there tape of him playing NHL games against NHL players? Because there is for Ryan.
Burns could turn out amazing, and that would be awesome, but even if he turns into an NHL player I don't think he does it in the next 2 seasons. If he doesn't play in the NHL then it is not because the Oilers signed Derek Ryan. Ryan was also undrafted and it took him years to get to the NHL. Seems like Ryan is who Burns would hope to someday become.
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This is how I see it too. Burns would likely not play on the big team even if he went supernova in camp. UDFAs are projects. At this point, the Oilers are looking (not always in the right place LOL) for ways to win NOW, during McDavid's window. It's not about "forward" - it's about "now".
EDIT: There was also tape of Puljujarvi (and Yakupov) looking like elite, straight-to-the-NHL guys. One took three years to get there, and one took three years to basically be done in the league.
"[It was] really cool to throw on the Oilers gear, the gear that I want to play the rest of my life wearing. It was pretty cool to put it on. With all the history, it was a lot of fun." - Connor McDavid, July 1, 2015
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