I'm kind of over hoping the Oilers don't get the #1 pick now. Let's be honest, all the top 5 picks in the world haven't been able to get that organization back on track. So they get Matthews, it's just going to be the same old re-tread narrative from the team and fans:
"Oh this player will finally put us over the edge! We'll be contenders for multiple Stanley Cups in no time now!"
#yawn. We've all heard this same old song and dance for the last decade +.
It's clear that drafting #1 or top 5 multiple times over and over and over and over again doesn't win you titles, you actually have to know how to build a team. Something no Oilers GM has done since '06. Even then they still lost.
Let the Oilers plunder all the #1's, it's not helping them, and every other team seems to do just fine building with all the #2's and 3's and 4's etc etc.
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Last edited by dammage79; 01-27-2016 at 04:14 PM.
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