"Blindly taking the BPA every year" wasn't the Oilers' problem.
Their criteria for choosing the BPA in the first place was the problem. It seems like they neglected factors like positional need and their idea of what contending team should look like was flawed. Taking Hall and RNH may be justifiable, but Yakupov didn't make any sense when they could have used a big #1 centre (Galchenyuk) or a top paring defenseman (Reilly, Trouba, Murray.)
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