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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Good post Voice Of Reason, points out just how absurd it is to suggest that the Oil should have just easily traded away the first overall to fill "organizational need" as if goalscoring isn't THE organizational need of every team in the league and the hardest need to come by. Those types of transactions are exceedingly rare and only in the mind of the rivals desperate to find any fault should they have traded the #1 pick in a draft year when there was a clear consensus guy to go first.
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I'm not interested in defending the Oilers. I only wanted to point out that suggesting "you should have traded that 1st overall pick for NHL players + picks/prospects" is, as far as I can tell, complete fantasy. That goes for any recent 1st overall pick. That goes for future first overall picks as well, regardless of what team holds that pick.