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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Oh please.
2010 3rd overall Erik Gubrannson
2011 3rd overall Jonathan Huberdeau
2013 2nd overall Barkov
2014 1st overall Ekblad
You may as well give Oilers management credit for building a good young team out of perennial losing if you are going to credit Tallon with that. All he's shown is that he can keep a team really bad for a long enough time to accumulate a lot of highly drafted players.
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They went from 66 to 91 to 103 points and a division title with a solid young core of Ekblad, Barkov, Huberdeau, Trocheck, Smith, Bjugstad, Petrovic, Kulikov and Gudbranson, none of whom were even 25 years old yet.
Then for some weird reason the owner promoted their AHL head coach to associate GM mid season, then full on GM at the end of the 103 point season. Rowe then went on to make a bunch of questionable moves in the name of analytics and the worst move he made was a panic firing of Gallant after a slow 11-10-1 start. We see how well that's worked out.
I'm not saying Tallon is some world beater, but I doubt they'd be in this big of a mess had he stayed in the GM seat. For starters Gallant would probably still be the coach.