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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
The problem with the Oilers is that they should have traded away those players or picks for assets that would help them. Everyone knows that is what they need to do, but the haven't done so yet. Their mistake is holding onto those players like their lives depend on it.
And for all the grief they get, they took the general consensus #1 pick each season. Who's to say the Flames wouldn't have made the same picks had they been in that position? It's easy to say they should have taken Ryan Murray instead of Yakupov. That would certainly have filled a need. But no one at the time was saying that. Same with Hall vs Seguin. Seguin now for sure, but at the time Hall was winning those polls with a >80% vote, including on CP. We have the luxury of hindsight.
The Oilers trading away either those 1st overalls for some good talent would have been the smart move. But alas, we are blessed they don't think like that.
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Actually there was a lot of talk about this, especially up here in Edmonton. There were also a lot of rumours that Katz intervened and forced them to take Yakupov over Murray. All speculation of course, but there were a lot of people that were saying the whole time that Yakupov was the wrong player to pick even though he was ranked 1st.
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