Anyone remember what the condition was for us to get the 6th round pick?
From an Oiler standpoint any criticism of Linus Omark is fairly warranted. He was a complete bust and a waste of a spot, pick, development etc.. Guy scored 8 NHL goals in his 3 season NHL career. JFJ scored at a more prolific pace/min without being on the PP.
Omark was a super skilled player who was able to have a successful NHL rookie season (27 points in 51 games), as well as tear up the KHL, AHL and Swiss league
Successful Year? He scored 5 goals that season, was a peripheral player the whole year, and for most of the year struggled to get any production.
Linus had 4pts in first 4games that year including a 3pt game and nearly everybody thought it was off to the races. He proceeded to garner only 16pts over the next 40games before finishing strong with 7pts in last 8games in entirely meaningless games.
Not to mention a dismal GA record that year.
This was a one trick pony without many tricks.
You know as fans of the Oilers that were used to absolute dreck when so many welcome the *contribution* of a player like Linus Omark.
Its still production. From the 2007 draft, Omarks short, but semi productive NHL season ranks him ahead of almost all 4th rounders, half of the 2nd and 3rd rounders and a couple of 1st rounders.
He was nothing special, and Im not trying to pump his tires. But Omark was a successful 4th round pick.
His contributions, even in subjective meaningless games, are still contributions at the NHL level. He was a .5 ppg rookie, similar to Barstchi, Monahan, Vorcek, Turris, JVR etc etc all put up in their rookie seasons
Successful Year? He scored 5 goals that season, was a peripheral player the whole year, and for most of the year struggled to get any production.
Linus had 4pts in first 4games that year including a 3pt game and nearly everybody thought it was off to the races. He proceeded to garner only 16pts over the next 40games before finishing strong with 7pts in last 8games in entirely meaningless games.
Not to mention a dismal GA record that year.
This was a one trick pony without many tricks.
You know as fans of the Oilers that were used to absolute dreck when so many welcome the *contribution* of a player like Linus Omark.
Sigh. Monahan has scored TWICE as many goals in his rookie year(not yet completed) as an 18yr old than a much older Omark scored in the NHL in his entire career. lol
Its a joke you would even make the comparison to the above listed players.
To show that his rookie season was pretty good. And to even get a season like that from a 4th round pick is a successful pick. Yes Omark was older, but its still their first NHL season, and Monahan was a 6th OA pick.
Im not exactly sure why we have to drag this guy through the mud. He had marginal NHL success, was determined to try and make the show, and was never a locker room issue besides some wild assumptions by Omark haters. Not sure what else youd want from a 4th round pick
He has run his course in the NHL, did the best he could, and contributed positively to the Oilers for a season and to their farm team for 2. He is not a "bust" or someone we should point to and say "the Oilers cant develop players, Omark is a failure"
he certainly didn't contribute positively on the second line. he sunk the line from a GA perspective. Omark was a horrible hockey player here and while an insignificant piece sure contributed to the team being even worse that year.
Not sure if I agree with you on that one.
From a simple points perspective, his .5 ppg certainly helped us. Even if he did collect some points in meaningless games, he still did it against legit NHL teams fighting for playoff spots. The meaningless games argument can also be made against Hall,Yakupov, Huberdeau, Tavares, Stamkos,Duchene etc etc who all collected points in meaningless games to the end of the season and some point in their initial 3 seasons
From an advanced stats POV, his CorsiOn was the highest amongst all regular forwards, and #2 for all regular players.
His RelCorsi (Corsi in relation to the rest of his team) was 8.2. Meaning he played better than a majority of the other forwards (in terms of shot differentials). For perspective, Hall had a 10.5 and Eberle 8.5. Both have slightly lower CorsiOn numbers as well
Even though the team was horrible, Omark was slightly less horrible
Outscoring helps. Not bleeding GA. Its quite simple.
But anyway,
The Omark Corsi has been regularly cited. With that being one of the funnier moments in the ongong Corsi debate.
The NHL is hard on "YouTube and Shoot Out Sensations":
I.) Schremp - gone
II.) Omark - gone
III.) Gagner - soon to be gone
I think this is a lesson to future Oilers and fans alike: highlight goals don't make a career.
So who will be the next phenom that Oiler fans fall in love with?
Anyone else find Olympic hockey mind bogglingly boring? I've never particularly cared about big ice versus small ice, I just like hockey. But this year the boring "trap" ultra defensive systems possible on the big ice is making me sick.
Worst hockey I've seen since the clutch and grab era.