It is easy to look at the oiler picks and say how they could have gone different. Seguin versus Hall is evening out, but I would still rather have Tyler over Taylor, and would have gone that way on draft day. Too early on Nugent-Hopkins, as he has a lot of promise if he doesn't get injured too often, but Landeskog looks the better NHLer now. And Galchenyuk looks better than Yakupov too, but this is just on current play - it could be that if situations were reversed, the oiler kids would look better on Boston/Colorado/Montreal.
I think of all of their young guys, Eberle should be the untouchable one, as I feel he has a winning quality. Gagner would be the first to move, if there is a good market. I think that team needs to target players from winning organizations, such as Boston, Detroit, San Jose, players that have been in the playoffs and know what it takes.
San Jose may actually make a good trade partner, as they will need to re-energize their team with youth, to start to build around Couture as their main man.
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