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Originally Posted by wingmaker
What about the three up the road? I know it's early but they certainly don't look like superstars.
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In each case, the player they took is kind of poor for a #1 overall pick. The overall draft years in 2011 and 2012 were average, and abysmal respectively. 2010 was okay, but in my opinion they should've taken Seguin (Centers are more important than wingers)
Hall is a very very talented player that plays very recklessly. He should score a lot, but he is very injury prone.
RNH is a skinny smaller player (he's 6 foot tall, but is a toothpick) that is looking like a quality 1st line forward. Not a star, but not bad.
Yakupov is a bit of a head case.
Reinhart or Dal Colle are both 6-2 and don't play recklessly like hall and neither are a head case. Those two players have more in common with Monahan than they do with any of the Oilers group.
The main difference between the Flames and Oilers is that the Oilers do not have any secondary players in their prospect pool. Nobody that's trending towards becoming a good 3rd line Center as an example. We have 3 right now (Knight, Colborne, Backlund). The only thing missing from our collection of forward prospects is star talent. If Monahan is your best player, you aren't going to win anything unless you have 3 or 4 guys that are that good.