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Re: Yakupov Interview [message #825462 is a reply to message #825460 ]	Mon, 18 September 2023 13:50

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Kr55 wrote on Mon, 18 September 2023 11:45

At the least we could have built up Yak into a good trade chip.

Yeah - I think people always seem to forget that the team knows its players better than anyone else, so if a guy has a good rookie season but you don't believe in him long-term being able to peak where you had hoped, then you can still probably trade him for a significant amount. MacTavish/Eakins were just brutal for destroying the value of every player they touched. They'd publicly question their abilities. They'd healthy scratch them perplexingly. They wouldn't deal them while there might be public backlash, so they preferred to get to the point where they were just done here before liquidating them for nothing. MacTavish's had a starting goalie that would be a Vezina candidate soon after and he only got a 4th liner for him. He had a top-pairing RHD that he got a 2nd and 5th round pick for. He had a first line RW who he got a 3rd and a 5th round pick for. And with Yakupov, while they weren't the ones to ultimately trade him, by the time they were done with him, he'd lost all value. If the Oilers had dealt him after his first season, they would have done pretty well, and they could have pointed to the fact that we had so many forwards needing offensive time and PP time as a reason to do a deal. Instead we both held on to him, even embarrassing the player over his agent asking for a deal, and systematically destroyed the player's value - once again shooting us in the foot with both barrels.

I don't have time to look very hard, but I am guessing that there's very few first overalls who got less return than Yakupov. Patrik Stefan was dealt with Jaro Modry for Niko Kapanen and a 7th rounder - but at least Kapanen was an NHL player. Alexandre Daigle was traded for Pat Falloon, Vaclav Prospal and a 2nd. Brian Lawton was dealt with Rick Bennett & Igor Liba for Mark Tinordi, Paul Jerrard, Brett Barnett and a 3rd round pick. Greg Joly was swapped one-for-one for aging veteran (and future Oilers coach) Bryan (Bugsy) Watson. The Yakupov return of an expiring contract in Pochiro and a third round pick (that we'd ultimately trade away too) is pathetic and shows just how little effort the team made to maintain that player's value.

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Yakupov Interview	By: Adam on Fri, 08 September 2023 10:15
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