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Originally Posted by Matty81
I think anybody with above average skills (basically any top 6 winger in the league) will look good beside McDavid. I'm still in the camp that the Oilers are idiots if they don't trade that pick or draft a D man. Tkachuk doesn't help them - their forward corps is not perfect but it's fine. Would be moronic to draft another forward, and Tkachuk looks good but I don't see a franchise player there, probably a solid productive NHL top 6 winger which is not a hard asset to acquire compared to a top defenceman.
They are never going to win anything without adding two top pairing D, and no one is going to trade them those players for soft supporting players like Eberle, Yakupov or RNH anymore. Hall is the only guy they have who another team will move a young front line defenceman for (obviously McDavid is staying put), outside chance Draisaitl, but despite the hype, he's been terrible outside of one 2/3 month stretch so you're more likely looking at a similar dman with good upside but not established coming back...
So just move down 3 or 4 picks and grab Juolevi... Add another asset, get what you need to build a winning team.
They are so bad because they don't know how to build a team, and picking Tkachuk would be another bad mistake by them unless they are moving Hall for a dman in a seperate deal and Tkachuk is basically a replacement.
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They used to say that about Crosby but look how things have turned out. Tkachuk has the elite hockey sense to play with a guy like McDavid and get the most out of him.
If they want Juolevi they have to pick him where they are as there's too much risk trading down and to trade down they need a partner and which team picking 5-10 is going to give up a substantial return for Tkachuk when guys like Brown, Jost, Nylander and Keller are going to be available where they pick? The trade talk gets far too out of hand in these draft threads as they rarely happen especially in the top 5 picks.
Personally I feel they are going to package Eberle or RNH to get a defensemen so they would be best served to take the BPA with this pick.