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Originally Posted by ComixZone
If Florida came to Treliving and said "1st overall for Gio, straight-up", the deal would be made.
"risk becoming the Oilers" - the Oilers aren't the way they are due to trading away veterans. They never had good veterans to trade away - that's part of the problem. Another huge part of their failures is their complete inability to utilize the draft outside of picking 1st overall (and I'd still say, even with those picks they've failed quite nicely).
The only way we'd risk becoming the Oilers is if we fired our coaching staff and management team, and hired the goofs that work for the Oilers. They're a special kind of incompetence that I doubt many others could replicate.
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I would say in trading Gio the biggest way we would risk becoming "like the Oilers" is in having an inept D core. We have no high end prospects, so we would go into next season with;
Brodie, Russell, and Ekblad as our top 3. None of them fully proven, even if you have allot of faith in them. And do we really know if any of them all of them can handle the step they would need to take without Gio there.
Then Edmontons scraps, Smid.
And The guy everyone wants to run out of town Wideman.
Even with the top three being young and having upside, it could take several years. There would be a good chance it would leave our goaltenders complete exposed ruining their confidence. And the Forwards would never get the because the Flames would always be hemmed in their own zone.
Losing Culture, bad Goaltending, and Lack of Vets have always been secondary problems to that in Edmonton.