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Originally Posted by burnitdown
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.
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That the Oilers go out of their way to acquire former Oil Kings acts to underscore their poor scouting. They have overvalued guys playing right under their noses. Of those eight players HockeyFan #751 noted, SIX were members of the 2012-13 Oil Kings title team. Pretty good example of narrow vision.
The Flames, meanwhile, have taken fewer players from the Hitmen as prospects, for a team that is twice as old. We have, over the years, added former players who were already established pros for either the NHL (Stuart, Sjostrom) or as AHL filler (Brust).