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 Adam
Messages: 7125
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| Kr55 wrote on Mon, 13 May 2024 17:25 |
| Oscargasm wrote on Mon, 13 May 2024 17:09 |
Organizational failure when Jesper Wallstedt fell to them and they decided to trade that pick for Xavier Bourgault, who will never be an NHL regular.
Yes. I said it. XB will never be a regular NHLer. To me, that move was worse than the Griffin trade, the Eberle tree, the Lucic signing. Just. Horrid.
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We doubled up on failure that draft. Coffey was hounding the org to pick Johnston who he mentored from a young age, Staios was pushing for Wyatt Johnston too. Wright decided that his genius was too great and took Bourgault.
$25M for a GM whose entire claim to fame was amazing drafting/developing and patiently waiting for picks to emerge as stars (achieving over ripened status). I don't think Holland will have drafted a single top end player for us in his 5 years.
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The legend that he created around that is bonkers too. The one thing that they did well is have more and better European scouts than other teams (especially in Sweden), but even there, the guys they did best on in the Holland era - Datsyuk & Zetterberg - weren't guys that the team was believing would be stars.
The other late picks like Lidstrom & Fedorov were there before Holland ran the show. There's a few other decent ones but not more than any other team.
He was handed the keys to a defending Stanley Cup Champion with a great lineup and got the next year's win too. Then they won the early 2000s Cup by outpaying everyone else and basically icing an All-Star team. He peaks in the 2007-09 era with Lidstrom, Zetterberg and Datsyuk all playing extremely well. but in the next several years, he did nothing as the team declined. He didn't make good trades, he struggled to manage the cap and he didn't draft particularly well. And we've just seen more of that since he got here. I still wonder what if the Oilers just followed through with their hiring/interview process after they fired Chiarelli where we are now. What would a Bill Zito have been able to do with this team?
"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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