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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
That's revisionist history. Yakupov may not have been a consensus #1 OA, but he was a consensus top-3. The Oilers didn't go off the board drafting him. It was a weak draft, and the Oilers handled Yakupov's development badly, because that's what the Oilers do.
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While this is true, I think the worst thing about the Yakupov pick were the reports that the Oilers scouting staff in an overwhelming majority wanted Murray over Yakupov but were overruled by Katz.