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Originally Posted by FAN
You do know that Taylor Hall put up 80 points this season right? Landeskog is better than RNH right now but the Oilers do need a center and can't of too early to tell the 2012 draft. I think Yakupov had the sophomore jinx and will be better (maybe not a guy you can win with but better).
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I just don't buy this at all, he wasn't great in his rookie year until April rolled around, there was no pressure, and the team had pretty much tuned out any kind of coaching with Krueger and just did their own thing.
For a first round draft pick the kid is an amazingly incomplete hockey player, sometimes players dominate juniors based on physical ability alone, then they get to the NHL and can't figure the game out, that could very well be Yak.
He'll carve out an NHL career if he decides too, but at the end of the day he'll be that infuriating player that gains the label dummy most of the time, and talented for the rest.
I wouldn't count on him as being any kind of stable sensation if I was an Oilers fan.