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Originally Posted by Bingo
I think Oil Stain was being tongue in cheek to make a point ... not honestly thinking he felt you could remove half a D core and then call it average.
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That's a terrible analogy, then.
Hamilton, Brodie, and Giordano are proven NHLers.
Nurse has never played an NHL game just like Kylington, Hickey, and Andersson.
I'd rather take my bets on three players with similar upside (#4-#2 Defenseman) over putting all my eggs into the Nurse basket, even though Nurse is obviously the more "attractive" prospect. If 33% of them make it, that's 1 of the 3 and yet for the Oilers that's still 0/1.
I'd rather take my bets on Wotherspoon, Kulak, Culkin, Nakladal, Morrison, Kanzig, Wotherspoon, Rafikov than place all my bets on flawed, but more hyped prospects like LaLeggia and Reinhart.
And while McDavid's a hell of a prospect, this is still is their fourth time banking their entire future on a 1st overall. They learned over and over that you can't build a team with just one player. If you wanna use an analogy, how about this:
As Edmonton fans, would they trade all those under 25 former 1st round picks:
Hall
RNH
Yakupov
Eberle
Nurse
Draisaitl
Reinhart
Klefbom
for
Connor McDavid?