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Originally Posted by Hockey Fan #751
The Oilers draft (or trade for) Oil Kings all the time. How's that worked out for them?
Moroz - Bust (early 2nd round)
Musil - Bust (early 2nd round)
Abney - Bust (3rd round!!!)
Ewanyk - Bust
Brossoit - Likely backup
Reinhart - Busting (traded a 1st and a 2nd)
Gernat - Bust
Pelss - Passed away unfortunately after splitting his first pro season between AHL and ECHL
You should do what the Flames do, and that's treat the Hitmen like any other junior team. The one time they didn't it blew up in their face (taking Krahn way too high).
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I think it's unquestionably agreed the Oilers take it to the extreme in this area...but even from this list, Musil & Abney were drafted while playing with others teams and Brossoit & Reinhart weren't drafted by the Oilers. So they've only drafted 4 from the Oil Kings. With us drafting 3 from the Hitmen, I definitely don't seen a problem and wouldn't want us to purposely try and increase the number of Hitmen prospects in the system.