As already noted we can only move up to 3, 2, or 1 not 'a couple'. That's not how it works. As also noted, the likelyhood of us going to #12 is about the same as winning the PB lottery. It could happen, and most likely will - once very 500 years or so (as in the #9 dropping to #12). So IMO it's #9, or a top 3. I love the idea of, if we do get 9th, keeping it and developing the kid properly like any successful team does (Wpg, Nashville, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, etc. etc.) but PC is pretty much open for business if it's not a top 10 pick.
lmao and you actually trust the bozos that run our scouting to draft a sleeper star? bahaha
As you've been told, the 'bozo's you're talking about are long gone. I'm not worried about who we draft - I'm worried about what we get for the pick if we trade it. The Reinhart deal really came back to haunt us (in conjucntion with the Talbot deal, plus losing 2nd and 3rd for PC and TM). We have next to nothing in our pipeline and have to sign college FA's to fill out a somewhat competitive AHL roster. The players we have drafted IMO are fine for the most part, just need more of them.
So anywho, I'm hoping for a top 3 so we'll keep it. Scared as heck we stay at 9 and PC trades it for some 30 year old + winger that has one good year (if we're lucky) in him then nothing but another salary cap drain. Oilers are FUBAR already - trading the #9 pick for what I think we'll get for it makes us all that much worse IMO.
