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Re: 2025 Oiler Off-Season Transactions [message #846933 is a reply to message #846859 ]	Wed, 25 June 2025 14:06

Adam
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6 Cups

I was looking at the Oilers roster on Capwages (https://capwages.com/teams/edmonton_oilers) and one thing that jumps out to me is that we have stunningly few drafted and developed players in the organization:

On the main roster:
McDavid
Draisaitl
Nugent-Hopkins
Bouchard
Nurse
Skinner

In the System:
O'Reilly (1st rd, 2024)
Clattenburg (4th rd 2024)
Petrov (Rd 6 2021)
Akey (Rd 2 2023)
Kemp (Rd 7 2018)
Rodrigue (Rd 2 2018)
Day (Rd 6 2023)
Jonsson (Rd 5 2022)

Both Kemp and Rodrigue face the possibility of being cut loose as they're both RFAs and need qualifying offers. Of the 7 prospects, the last three are all goalies.

Comparing quickly to the other finalists, the Panthers have just 4 roster players that they drafted (Barkov, Lundell, Samoskevich & Ekblad) but 11 minor leaguers (and their farm team was just in the AHL Finals). Dallas has 11 home-grown players on their roster and 12 more in the system. And Carolina has 5 roster players and a whopping 18 in the system.

The Oilers have traded several picks over the last few years but so have the other teams at the top of the league. So what gives? Has our drafting just been that bad? There's definitely a good argument that that's the case. In the Ken Holland era, the Oilers made 25 selections at the draft. Of those, just Petrov, Akey, Jonsson & Day remain in the system, none of whom are yet to play an NHL game. We'd have rights on a couple of others but it's looking bleak. Only 4 of the 25 have played in the NHL. That includes Broberg and Holloway of course, who managed 69 and 89 games for the Oilers before the offer sheets. Then there's Matej Blumel who landed in Dallas eventually and has managed to get 13 games in the show over the last 3 seasons, and then Raph Lavoie, who had 7 games for the Oilers before getting claimed by Vegas last year and playing another 9. And that's it!

There were some changes to the scouting department after Holland was cleared out last year, but there's a pretty good argument that there should be no one left from that reign of error. Comparatively, Chiarelli had 27 draft picks in his time with the Oilers and of those 18 played NHL games. Now to be fair, Chia had more high picks and less top picks traded, but at the same time several depth picks have well over 100 NHL games.

That skew means that there's just not a lot of prospects pushing to make the roster here, so puts a lot more pressure on the team to recruit through free agency in Europe and college. And hopefully they can find a couple of gems in the four picks this week.

"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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