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Originally Posted by devo22
the sad thing is that when you look at their prospect pool, their defense is what is considered best. They don't have any good forward prospects (best ones are probably Khajra, Moroz and Slepyshev) and in goal ... let's just say that Laurent Brossoit IS their goaltending prospect depth. They just suck at drafting and/or developing ... I can't put my finger on which one of the two it is, but it's astonishing that a team can just be so bad. Outside of the 1st round, they have to be the worst franchise in the league when it comes to drafting and developing.
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What's funny though is how over the years how many guys we've heard are great picks from the Oilers, how they "won the draft".
Now to a certain point all fan bases get hot n' bothered about the shiny new draftees - but no fan base has the arrogant optimism that Oil fans do.
Here's a quick laundry list of the guys we heard a ton about in recent years:
- Dragon Umicevic
- Taylor Chorney
- Danny Syvret
- Chris Vandevelde
- Vyachaslev Truhko
- Frederik Pettersson
- Alex Bumagin
- Linus Omark
- Teemu Hartikanenen (sic)
- Toni Rajala
- Oliver Roy
- Anton Lander
- Tyler Bunz
- Ryan Martindale
- Curtis Hamilton
- Tobias Rieder
- Martin Gernat
- Samu Perhonen
Those are all non 1st round guys that I bet many have heard about. Not b/c they are good but because they were the latest over-hyped Oiler draftee.
Or to sum up - Edmonton is no good.