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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
I'm talking in general terms. Yes... the Oilers are a terrible puck possession team. But if I was sitting at the draft table all of those years and trying to build a puck possession team would you not pick guys like Hall and RNH?
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No, because virtually every team in the NHL is either trying to become a puck-possession team or attempting to remain a puck-possession team. I would rather say that if I were sitting at the draft table all of those years and trying to build a puck possession team based on good, individual players's puck possession ratings, then it would make sense to build around Hall, Nugent-Hopkins, J. Schultz, and Eberle.
Successful puck possession is a group characteristic, and teams produce it by factoring into consideration all sorts of variables.