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 CrusaderPi
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Registered: December 2003
Location: AB Highway 100
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 16 November 2022 12:01 |
| Mike wrote on Wed, 16 November 2022 11:42 |
| CrusaderPi wrote on Wed, 16 November 2022 14:21 |
| Mike wrote on Wed, 16 November 2022 11:06 |
Man I was pumped when we won that lottery. We were getting the kid that broke Stamkos' Sarnia rookie records. Ouff...
To be fair to the Oilers scouting team, nobody who was a realistic option would have been any better. Ryan Murray - meh. Galchenyuk - meh. Had a couple of decent seasons, but pretty underwhelming. Griffin Reinhart? LOL.
Guys like Reilly, Forsberg, Dumba, and Trouba seems like they would have been better choices, but none of those were going #1.
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The Yak saga, maybe more than Hall, really underscored the futility of how the Oilers were rebuilt during that era. I still have a #64 t shirt somewhere in a box.
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Poorly built, and honestly some bad luck sucking that much those years. We got Hall, RNH, and Yakupov. Previous 3 were Patrick Kane, Stamkos, and Tavares. But I suppose it's that bad luck that helped us get Draistail and McDavid, so there's that.
But from those 3 #1 picks - Hall was a good pick. Seguin would have been fine as well. Yakupov sucked, but so did all the other realistic options. The only one where they might have been able to do better was with RNH, but IIRC, that was really between him and Landeskog, with Huberdeau getting the odd mention. Kucherov, Gaudreau, and Scheifele are better, but they weren't really options.
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I have brought that point up about the draft picks. Tons of people mention the Oilers getting all those picks in a row but like you pointed out, look who they got.
Hall was 2010. He's a good player but franchise player? I would say no.
Nuge 2011. Good player but not a franchise player.
2012 Yak. Draft bust. 2012 might be one of the worst drafts in a very long time.
When you get #1 overall picks, the expectation is you get elite, superstar players. Guys who single handedly can turn your team around. The first 2 aren't those guys and Yak was a bust.
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They clearly didn't get the best case McDavid type generational pick, but the team went out of their way to make chicken crap out of chicken salad. The Oilers acted like a first overall meant instant success. No need to worry about anything, Hall will take care of it. No defense because Hall. No leadership because Hall. No coach or GM because Hall will fix everything. The two extra firsts and Eberle's emergence really served to underscore organizational deficiencies. Honestly it looks like the Oilers are still following the same model, they just have a much better version of Hall and Ebs.
In retrospect, they should have traded the Yak pick for defense.
Please do not feed the bears. Feeding the bears creates a dependent population unable to survive on their own. Bears.
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Re: Yakupov going to Edmonton |
By: hmc on Thu, 31 May 2012 15:20 |
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