First.
Phoenix beats Edmonton.
Edmonton is really bad.
Like really really bad.
They're on pace for like 50 pts this season. That's like spectacularly terriawful.
So bad that there is no word that we can make up that combines synonyms of bad to describe them.
They're on pace for like 50 pts this season. That's like spectacularly terriawful.
Ignoring the dreadful trade rumour Yak for Johnson+1st, you have to think that there is a trade there between the two teams: Gagner for Johnson straight up.
If I'm Edmonton I trade whoever I can not named Hall or Nugent-Hopkins for assets and just restart the whole ******* mess by drafting Ekblad. If they do it smart they can probably wrangle 4 1st rounders at least and do BPA for those but for the 2nd round on just shotgun draft defensemen.
They almost have to start over. I'd be hating life if I was an oiler fan.....
There owners alleged 4th year of rebuild is hilarious, it's clearly the 6th year. And they're worse than last year.
That's the funny thing about defensemen... unless they're top 3 picks, you're just as well off picking them in the 3rd and 4th round. Like the D-men we've developed...
Edler - wasn't he a 3rd?
What was Bieksa?
I'm not going to research any of this...
Corrado?
Tanev wasn't even drafted...
Subban
March 2007
Edler - 3rd round
Bieksa - 5th round
Corrado - 5th round
Stanton - undrafted
Hamhuis - 1st round (Nashville)
Garrison - undrafted
They are, without a doubt in my mind, the worst team in professional North American sports. From top to bottom a complete disaster. How you can ice such a terrible team with 3 first overall picks on your roster in the cap era is beyond comprehension. It's a level of incompetence that is unparalleled.
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Good god thanks for that!
It's amazing all those players listed, none play for them.
One thing you do have to credit Oilers management with is being
March 2007
The goal is to build a team and the Oilers have sucked mightily at that. Also their player development has been abysmal.It is astonishing. The Oilers have a bevy of cheap, elite, young talent. It is the hardest thing to get in the NHL and they have a ton of it. All they had to do was find some third liners and some competent defensemen and they couldn't even do that. It's a testament to how terrible their player evaluation is.