If Nail Yakupov leaves for KHL=GOAT Bust?
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Having a top 4 D or a top 6 center wouldn't have done them much better? You've gotta be kidding me.
But scouting is much different today, it should be almost impossible for a #1OA to bust as bad as Nail Yakupov is busting right now. If he leaves for the KHL this summer he will end his NHL career with 136 points in 350 games, numbers that compete with Greg Joly, yet Yakupov was drafted in an era when scouting is infinitely better.
For all the people saying Daigle or Stefan, the former had a much better career than Nail and the latter was similar statistically but was also good defensively. Nail is clearly the worst player of the bunch, he is literally useless at the NHL level right now and he's gotten chances to prove himself even after Dallas Eakins.
Worst of all is that Nail does not have the requisite hockey IQ to be efficient in a lower 6 role, and this is the reason that he might not get another shot at the NHL. I'm honestly shocked that this isn't closer for Nail, the level of fail he has unleashed on the NHL is absolutely epic.
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Bust is a negative, so being the greatest at that negative means that he's the worst.
McDrailers
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Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Daigle have the skill? Just didn't want to play hockey? It's the exact opposite with Yak if so. He WANTS to play in the NHL. He's just god awful (outside of his hustle and shot).
I take Ryan Murray over him everyday and twice on Sundays in a re-draft (perhaps keeping us from the Reinhart trade)
I take Ryan Murray over him everyday and twice on Sundays in a re-draft (perhaps keeping us from the Reinhart trade)
Yep he wanted to be a model or something. Also Patrik Stefan was plagued by injuries and had to retire early. Nail Yakupov has NO EXCUSE, he tries but he just really sucks. It's sad to see but it's the truth.
McDrailers
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Lol, nope...
Maybe if the Oilers hadn't scored history would be kinder to Stefan.
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He was a reach. A really bad reach by the Rangers and his hockey skill set consisted of having size and being able to throw down. He struggled through development, having a really bad knee injury, but either way he was never projected to be a top NHL D-man. It didn't help that the game started to change before he could get his feet wet in the NHL. Go back 5-7 years, he might have had a shot
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Yak was just the best player in a bad draft year. If he’d been in about any other draft class (except for 11), he would have been a 3-5 overall and his failure wouldn’t be all that big of a deal. I think Daigle was worse. He was a lock to be a superstar.
Cus the Oilers are a Ryan Murray/Galchenyuk away from being THAT much better? Think again.
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Galchenyuk isn't a star or anything but he is 24 and has a few 50+ point seasons and a 30-goal campaign on his resume, given how offensively challenged his team was putting up 51 points is not all bad, definitely could be an addition to the Oilers right now unlike Yak who is literally a healthy scratch caliber player.
Daigle was supposed to be a franchise changing player, wasn't that but still put up decent numbers in his career (hit 50 pts a few times in his career).
Yak was supposed to be a first line scoring winger (I'd say expectations were that he would be a 30 goal scorer, with his peak being around 40 goals).
Never came close to that, his best season was his rookie year, 17 goals and 31 pts in 48 games.
Yakupov is definitely the worse player between the two, but Daigle imo the bigger disappointment.
That being said, I don't mind calling Yak GOAT bust. Daigle was serviceable in the NHL, had over 600gp, gave himself a career. Yak couldn't do that, he wasn't good enough for the NHL outside of his first couple years.
Yak was supposed to be a first line scoring winger (I'd say expectations were that he would be a 30 goal scorer, with his peak being around 40 goals).
Never came close to that, his best season was his rookie year, 17 goals and 31 pts in 48 games.
Yakupov is definitely the worse player between the two, but Daigle imo the bigger disappointment.
That being said, I don't mind calling Yak GOAT bust. Daigle was serviceable in the NHL, had over 600gp, gave himself a career. Yak couldn't do that, he wasn't good enough for the NHL outside of his first couple years.
What complete and utter nonsense. Yes, a team in dire need of secondary scoring and defensively sound defensemen would be far better of with one of those two. It takes a special kind of logic to come to a conclusion those two aren't a vast improvement over what Yakupov turned out to be.
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Daigle was a three time 50pt scorer. Yak would finish with a career high of 33pts
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get used to it. worst #1 pick in the past 20 years or so. Edmonton would be downright scary had they taken one of the top dmen like Lindholm,Rielly,Trouba
bert
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bert
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Daigle had 50 points as an 18 year old on one of the worst teams of all time. He lead an NHL team in scoring one season. He was much better than somewhat servicable but he did flop very hard. Yakupov though just sucks he is the biggest bust by a wide margin.
All the Russians get compared to Ovy. It’s just the easiest and laziest comparison. Nobody (maybe outside some overly-optimistic Oiler fans) though he was Ovy level good.
Randy Randerson
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Daigle was a better player that Yak for sure, but if it were me I'd be more disappointed that my potential face of the league generational player ended up being a sometimes-2nd-line-winger than my potential 1st line winger washed out of the league entirely
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right, the Oilers make the playoffs with Galchenyuk/Murray in the lineup today. Gotcha.
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