Confirmed with Link: [EDM/STL] Nail Yakupov for Zach Pochiro + Cond. 3rd

[medkit]

MPS and Yak playing soooo well.....gee what did they do last night against the Hawks?...not much.

Paajarvi wasn't in the lineup against the Hawks dude. Yak was fine, esp for a guy who only played 1 practice with a new team before being thrown onto Chicago's ice.

 

[Slatsmsg]

Yak scored a goal...that gives him what now?, 51 goals in 254 NHL games...pretty stellar.

nice kid, but doesn't change the fact he's the biggest !st OA bust in NHL history....kid is a below average hockey player... Zack Kassian scored a goal too, and now is getting promoted to the 2nd line, because of decent play, and recognizing his role...something Yak could never do.

Ahhh but if he recaptures that love of playing again...I don't think this story is near being written yet

 

[McXLNC97]

Vaunted Nugent Hopkins. 58G in last 5 seasons. Tragically with half of those goals coming in one of those seasons. He has 24 combined in the other 4/5 last seasons.

Playing ALL the time with the best producers this team could give him.

Yak was always the odd guy out, the guy that should be able to produce with Centers that have 5EV assists all year...****.

RNH has been going against the other teams top C's and is 100x's the defensive player that Yak is. Yak is a pathetic -84 in the last 3 seasons....just think about that for one second.....he's not even going up against the other teams top 6 and he put up those horrid numbers.

 

[Replacement*]

Yak is garbage, plain and simple....you can sit here and pump his tires all day....doesn't change the fact that he's going to go down as one of the biggest 1st overall busts in recent NHL history. Wow, he gets a goal against the siv Dubbie on a shot that should have been stopped....how many did he put by Crawford last night?

Go to the Blues thread right now and post that Yak is a garbage player.

Why don't you email Armstrong that right now?

Unfortunately you want the fact to be that Yak will turn out to "biggest bust in history"

But that is not a foregone conclusion. Its a presumptuous conclusion. Give Yak a good vet Center and he can produce. Been saying it here for years.

 

[Splatter]

Hitchcock said in the postgame that Yak will be getting PP time next week. Some theories about him here will be put to the test when he's working with the Blues' top two line guys on it.

 

[Blitzago*]

Go to the Blues thread right now and post that Yak is a garbage player.

Why don't you email Armstrong that right now?

Unfortunately you want the fact to be that Yak will turn out to "biggest bust in history"

But that is not a foregone conclusion. Its a presumptuous conclusion. Give Yak a good vet Center and he can produce. Been saying it here for years.

So since you don't think Yak is garbage, Eberle must not be garbage then too?

Or does that not fit your dislike for eberle.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

The same people downplaying the Oilers win last night are now praising Yakupov on a goal my dad could've stopped.

Where's that "it's only one game" schtick?

 

[Replacement*]

RNH has been going against the other teams top C's and is 100x's the defensive player that Yak is. Yak is a pathetic -84 in the last 3 seasons....just think about that for one second.....he's not even going up against the other teams top 6 and he put up those horrid numbers.

Think about how bad our bottomsix has been those year, or how bad our goaltending was, or D. Doesn't really matter, your mind is made up.

Meanwhile yak first star tonight in a game competed by two clubs that are worlds better than ours and with 20 players on the ice tonight as good as anybody but McDavid that we have. Yeah, in that game Yak managed to nab first star on 3rd line and limited minutes. Making all his minutes and shifts count.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Of course Ex-oilers are always better than current Oilers.

Mark it down, Taylor Hall puts up more points than McDavid and Yakupov outscores Eberle.

 

[Gone]

Go to the Blues thread right now and post that Yak is a garbage player.

Why don't you email Armstrong that right now?

Unfortunately you want the fact to be that Yak will turn out to "biggest bust in history"

But that is not a foregone conclusion. Its a presumptuous conclusion. Give Yak a good vet Center and he can produce. Been saying it here for years.

You are not alone in believing that. Just think, which statement is more likely to be true:

- Yak is a solid NHL winger capable of 40+ pts per season and Oiler Management is incompetent having lost another trade

vs.

- Oiler Management is brilliant and turned garbage Yak into a 3rd round pick was pure genius.

 

[K1984]

Think about how bad our bottomsix has been those year, or how bad our goaltending was, or D. Doesn't really matter, your mind is made up.

Meanwhile yak first star tonight in a game competed by two clubs that are worlds better than ours and with 20 players on the ice tonight as good as anybody but McDavid that we have. Yeah, in that game Yak managed to nab first star on 3rd line and limited minutes. Making all his minutes and shifts count.

Good to see he was able to do that for one of the first times in years.

 

[McXLNC97]

No actually I enjoyed watching the spoils of this orgs idiocy tonight. Nice seeing players I happen to like play for teams that won't **** them over.

Tom Gilbert will be good for LA as well. you can laugh at that too. I'll have the last laugh though.

And how many of those players have been sent packing by others teams after the Oilers? Tom Gilbert....gee why didn't Montreal want him any more? Good old Sammy Gagner....how many stops for him since he Oilers let him go? Perron?....multiple teams as well. Those organizations don't even want them anymore, yet, in your eyes, it's...oh the Oilers let him go.

 

[nabob]

The same people downplaying the Oilers win last night are now praising Yakupov on a goal my dad could've stopped.

Where's that "it's only one game" schtick?

And if Yakndoesnt score in the next 20 games those same people will have magically disappeared.

 

[Gone]

Of course Ex-oilers are always better than current Oilers.

Mark it down, Taylor Hall puts up more points than McDavid and Yakupov outscores Eberle.

Forget the Hyperbole, why not just admit the Oilers should try and win trades going forward, not lose.

 

[K1984]

You are not alone in believing that. Just think, which statement is more likely to be true:

- Yak is a solid NHL winger capable of 40+ pts per season and Oiler Management is incompetent having lost another trade

vs.

- Oiler Management is brilliant and turned garbage Yak into a 3rd round pick was pure genius.

Or:

Oiler management did the right thing in turning the page on a player that did not and was not going to work out and it worked out for both the team and player.

 

[Replacement*]

So since you don't think Yak is garbage, Eberle must not be garbage then too?

Or does that not fit your dislike for eberle.

Since when do I dislike eberle. He's the best goal scorer on this team. If you're going to strawman my argument at least come up with something plausible. Just because I find fault with Eberle having a very average game 1 does not equate to me not acknowledging his goal scoring strengths. Its just hard to see what the player could have been and what he has settled for. Eberle could be an allstar player in this league. He's settled thus far for less than that. Yes, Yak has too, one can argue, but Yak has had negligible help.

In todays NHL production does not occur in isolation unless your name is something like McDavid. Those players are very rare. Most players need help.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

You are not alone in believing that. Just think, which statement is more likely to be true:

- Yak is a solid NHL winger capable of 40+ pts per season and Oiler Management is incompetent having lost another trade

vs.

- Oiler Management is brilliant and turned garbage Yak into a 3rd round pick was pure genius.

This kid couldn't score 40 points when crappier players on the team were able to. Take Gagner for instance.

 

[nabob]

And how many of those players have been sent packing by others teams after the Oilers? Tom Gilbert....gee why didn't Montreal want him any more? Good old Sammy Gagner....how many stops for him since he Oilers let him go? Perron?....multiple teams as well. Those organizations don't even want them anymore, yet, in your eyes, it's...oh the Oilers let him go.

How many times was Gilbert waived and bought out since we dumped him? He really isn't much more than a soft #6 Dman at this point

 

[Canovin]

You are not alone in believing that. Just think, which statement is more likely to be true:

- Yak is a solid NHL winger capable of 40+ pts per season and Oiler Management is incompetent having lost another trade

vs.

- Oiler Management is brilliant and turned garbage Yak into a 3rd round pick was pure genius.

This. It baffles me that some posters would actually take the 3rd round. That's how much they hate Yak

 

[Blitzago*]

Think about how bad our bottomsix has been those year, or how bad our goaltending was, or D. Doesn't really matter, your mind is made up.

Meanwhile yak first star tonight in a game competed by two clubs that are worlds better than ours and with 20 players on the ice tonight as good as anybody but McDavid that we have. Yeah, in that game Yak managed to nab first star on 3rd line and limited minutes. Making all his minutes and shifts count.

You're exactly the same with with numerous players on the Oilers.....

 

[McXLNC97]

Go to the Blues thread right now and post that Yak is a garbage player.

Why don't you email Armstrong that right now?

Unfortunately you want the fact to be that Yak will turn out to "biggest bust in history"

But that is not a foregone conclusion. Its a presumptuous conclusion. Give Yak a good vet Center and he can produce. Been saying it here for years.

Why should i go the Blues board? I'm an OILERS fan....that's the team i root for......yippie he scored a goal....bring on the Rocket Richard.....don't worry, once Yak goes on his extended disappearing act like he always does, i'll be sure to ask you how he's doing. As a 1st overall, it's pretty pathetic that Yak can't produce anything on his own. Which other top pick is that dependant on others to even accomplish something above mediocrity?

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

Forget the Hyperbole, why not just admit the Oilers should try and win trades going forward, not lose.

Oh yeah the MacT model! That worked out great, didn't it? Or how about the Tambellini model?

If you've been watching this team for any length of time you knew they had to lose a trade to address that dire need on the back end.

Good Lord the Oilers put up 7 goals on the Flames last night and we're regretting the trade of the worst 1st overall pick in over a decade.

 

[Replacement*]

Or:

Oiler management did the right thing in turning the page on a player that did not and was not going to work out and it worked out for both the team and player.

Why is it a foregone conclusion that a talented #1 pick was never going to work out here?

Sorry, that's simply revisionist rationalizing.

The much more familiar narrative is the worst org in the NHL a decade running blows up yet another player.

 

[nabob]

This kid couldn't score 40 points when crappier players on the team were able to. Take Gagner for instance.

So the crappy line mates argument gets made for Yak here, but the same argument was used for Gagner by the same poster many times. Funny thing is that the two players were each other's crappy line mates.

 

[Gone]

Or:

Oiler management did the right thing in turning the page on a player that did not and was not going to work out and it worked out for both the team and player.

Yes, because history shows us turning the page on players that don't work out in this town is always the right thing.

Petry, MM, Hall, Yak, etc.