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Originally Posted by Cheerio
I can't be the only one who doesn't love the Oilers moves? Gryba is a bottom pair dman with little to no upside, they gave up essentially 2 firsts for Reinhart who hasn't proven he can play in the NHL, and Talbot had a good 20 game stretch behind an unreal Rangers D. I understand the Oilers were trying to speed up their rebuild but selling off almost all your high draft picks for unproven commodities is not the way to do it in my opinion.
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I thought the draft was a disaster for them outside of acquiring McDavid. Talbot was alright I guess, but it won't matter if they don't get 2-3 legit top 4 Dmen. He'll look like Scrivens and leave as a UFA unless Chiarelli can pull off a minor miracle before the season starts. He needs to reel in a couple big name guys from UFA and make an uncomfortable trade (2016 1st, Nurse, Drysaddle, etc) to fix those holes. I wouldn't be optimistic if I was an Oiler fan. There's no reason to expect they will be any better than a bottom 5/10 team next year with what we've seen so far.