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Originally Posted by Bar-Down
2008: Eberle was a great pick
2009- Paajarvi looks to be underwhelming
2010 - Hall has been good, but Seguin as a center and not as injury prone could be argued as a better pick.
2011- RNH is small and very injury prone so far. Landeskog plays a more physical style that could be better than another soft, small player like RNH.
2012 - They wouldve been better off taking Murray or Galchenyuk than Yakupov. Murray because they need defence. And I honestly think Galchenyuk will be the best player from this draft. If not for his draft year injury he would of been 1st overall. Galchenyuk will be huge for MTL for years.
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I posted a much longer and more thorough response to their drafting in the Oilers losing forever thread.
But a few quick points from that are:
2007: Voracek or Couture over Gagner are arguable
2012: Galchenyuk or Trouba are my favourites alternatives here a year later. Trouba looked better than Hamilton at the WJC IMO and looks like a total stud. I think he's passed Murray. They could have dealt down and taken Trouba. That said Yakupov could've been an okay pick in different scenarios.
They ended up with too many small centres and too many goalscoring wingers from the draft while ending up with zero size at centre, zero powerforwards and zero top pairing defensemen. And obviously they can't find all 3 with their first rounder this year
Guys like Seguin, Landeskog and Trouba could have given the Oil a different look and made them harder to play against. So far teams aren't finding it hard to play against the Oiler's special collection of crazy offensive talent except when a man down.