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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
Big difference that should not be ignored is the Flames were a borderline playoff team until this past season. The Oilers their 3 years finished with 2 top 10 picks including #6 in 2007 which is the same as ours this year.
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I always thought the Oilers screwed up in the Summer of 2007 by not realizing they should rebuild the team there. As I mentioned earlier they already had a 2nd first round pick going into the 08 draft, and maybe could have sold off some vets that summer. Instead they offersheeted Penner and gave up picks to do so, and signed a couple regretable UFA contracts. Had they gutted the team there and picked up players like Doughty, Duchene, Hall in the next three drafts they probably are a playoff team now.
So I'm glad the Flames didn't trade any of their picks at the draft, and for the most part didn't make any big splash type trades this offseason. They were very fortunate that Colorodo is ineptly managed and matched the O'Reilly offersheet. Hopefully that was a real wakeup call to the team and how they were managing the thing and just how bad it was.