What will happen, if Edmonton wins another 1st overall?

[Ermine]

They will continue to suck and ruin another promising future.

 

[34]

They won’t. They don’t deserve it either. Let another team who has never drafted #1 OA have it.

There should be a rule. Only allowed 1, first overall every 5 years.

 

[North Cole]

I admire your optimism.

I however must disagree. Most fans do not care about Edmonton and on HF I'd say they are the 2nd most hated team because of insecure fans needing to tell everyone McD is better than your guy.

It is hard to want to see any young talent go there to be wasted.

This is rich

 

[Butch 19]

This is rich

It's also true.

I still can't believe the NHL didn't add some draft rules, something like:

- if you drafted 1 thru 3 OA in the last 3 drafts, the highest you can draft is #5 for 3 years (or similar rule)

Other teams deserve the #1 more than the Oilers - and I hate saying that any team "deserves"anything over other teams, but this already is waaaay out of hand

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

What they will do is packaging RNH and Bouchard to Vancouver for Quinn Hughes
Just so they can reunite the Hughes brothers and sell more "hopes"

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

They won’t. They don’t deserve it either. Let another team who has never drafted #1 OA have it.
There should be a rule. Only allowed 1, first overall every 5 years.

Good point
You know which team that has never drafted 1OA before and currently has the brother of one of the draft eligible prospect in this upcoming draft?

Believe in miricle

 

[puckIuck]

mcdavid will ensure they are a bubble team for years to come

 

[North Cole]

It's also true.

I still can't believe the NHL didn't add some draft rules, something like:

- if you drafted 1 thru 3 OA in the last 3 drafts, the highest you can draft is #5 for 3 years (or similar rule)

Other teams deserve the #1 more than the Oilers - and I hate saying that any team "deserves"anything over other teams, but this already is waaaay out of hand

I still can't believe people think the draft needs to be "fixed".

-The rich part had nothing to do with the 1st overall. It was a Leaf fan's belief that the Oilers are the 2nd most hated fanbase because of "insecure fans needing to tell everyone McD is better than your guy". Doubt he's sitting in the countless - Matthew's compares favourably to McDavid, or Rielly hype threads, and calling out his own fanbase.

Funny, this anti-Oilers 1st overall nonsense is really the lesser of two evils...The league created the lottery in the 90's to limit tanking, and since then they've tinkered with it endlessly. If they just went back to - last place picks first - the Oilers would have less 1st overall's.

Oilers picks (10/11/12/15) + recent:

Season	Team Rank	Player
2010	30/30	Hall
2011	30/30	RNH
2012	29/30	Yakupov
2013	29/30	Mackinnon
2014	29/30	Ekblad
2015	28/30	McDavid
2016	29/30	Matthews
2017	28/30	Hischier
2018	31/31	Dahlin

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

League went through a period of six years where the worst team in the league did not get the first overall pick, and the 2nd worst team in the league has gotten the rights to first overall 4/9 (44.444%) times, the most of any lottery position over that time period. The Oilers would have 2 less first overall picks by the old standard, and ironically might have helped us avoid the Yakupov bust. In 1995 the league puts a mechanism in place to ward of "tanking", and a bunch of people here think it still needs to be fixed. If they can't get it right by 2019 (24 years later), then maybe it's time to just straight up abolish the draft and go back to 'reverse regular season standings'.

On the bright side, that 28/30 for McDavid still brings a smile to my face, Buffalo was legit tanking that year so I'm glad they lost out on it. Buffalo who, by the way, has probably been screwed the most of any team in draft lotteries.

HF will just have to collectively take a step back, wait for the Oilers to keep sucking and finish 31st or 32nd, then watch the draft lotteries eventually balance out...Or we keep winning and everyone keeps whining.

 

[Erndog]

They won’t. They don’t deserve it either. Let another team who has never drafted #1 OA have it.

There should be a rule. Only allowed 1, first overall every 5 years.

Why?

What if your 1 is Yakupov. Can't expect to improve.

There's a lottery. It's fine as is. If they finish 10th last and win the lottery with 2% odds then so be it.

 

[Windy River]

They won’t. They don’t deserve it either. Let another team who has never drafted #1 OA have it.

There should be a rule. Only allowed 1, first overall every 5 years.

And deny EDM the opportunity to draft the next Yak?

 

[Burned]

They will get to hang another banner, "most number of 1st overalls"... they need something to celebrate up there

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

At what point would they get relegated to the AHL?

If they win the draft and ruin another elite young player I think that conversation needs to happen.

 

[DFC]

Could save the franchise if they trade the pick.

 

[CartographerNo611]

Another career wasted...

 

[who_me?]

mcdavid will ensure they are a bubble team for years to come

Another career wasted...

 

[T REX]

I still think we make the playoffs and make some big waves but if not, after what we’ve been through with Chia, I think most fans in the league agree we deserve this pick more than anybody.

To watch us have our team gutted by an imbecile, the hockey gods must surely respond.

Uh no. You mismanaged resources. You deserve nothing. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if McStuckinEdmonton demands a trade out of there.

 

[End of Line]

We all laugh

 

[Bank Shot]

Oilers fans happy.
Other fans mad.

 

[Mr Positive]

I like to think the pick would be for sale for an impact defenseman, but if we don't get a great one we'd be okay with taking the best player.

And of course there would be no fan fantasy where the league would step in and stop the Oilers from getting the pick. Also, there would be no Lindros situation where the player doesn't want to join the team. Just another Oiler-hater fantasy

 

[Barrie22]

The Oilers will not win the lottery guys...no way they drop that badly.

They are 6 points away from 31st in the league. The oilers are prone for long dry spells of losing. Its not like they are comfortably ahead.

 

[TerminatorBlue]

I would rather see Edmonton or any team for that matter win the lottery than Ottawa have 1st overall, the would be terrible for Ottawa fans seeing it go to Colorado and then watching Duchene, Dzingel, Stone sign somewhere else.

Is Ottawa the most mismanaged team ever?

 

[Mr Tadakichi]

IT'S HAPPENING!

 

[Thrasymachus]

Why?

What if your 1 is Yakupov. Can't expect to improve.

There's a lottery. It's fine as is. If they finish 10th last and win the lottery with 2% odds then so be it.

I am convinced Yakupov wouldn't have busted so hard had he been drafted by another organization

 

[McJeety McJeet]

I am convinced Yakupov wouldn't have busted so hard had he been drafted by another organization

Then you didn't watch him play enough.

 

[Thrasymachus]

Then you didn't watch him play enough.

Right, so then why was he drafted 1oa? Why did he regress after his first season? The Oilers are hardly blameless