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Originally Posted by Bourque's Twin
I have to give a lot of credit to Jarmo Kekäläinen for passing on Puljujarvi for Dubois. Puljujarvi was the consensus #3 after Matthews and Laine. This threw off the entire draft and gave the Oilers no choice but to draft Puljujarvi! There’s a good chance they would’ve taken Juolevi and the Canucks would’ve been choosing between Tkachuk and Dubois.
But now, our 2 rivals got the 2 worst players in the top 6. I actually think Tkachuk is closer to the Laine / Matthews level than most think.
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Bless those BJs.
Not like the oilers did any investigating themselves to see what Kek did, of course. They were so enamored with the hype around the kid and pranced up to the draft stage without a second thought.
Incredible how they ####ed up that and the Yakupov picks. Most teams get those draft spots once in a quarter century and the oilers piss multiple great picks away in a few short years and squander what tools the kids had with no development plan because they're the most incompetently run nhl club to ever exist. Okay, outside of maybe the Thrashers.