[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Originally Posted by New Era

I have them going into rebuild number six.


1993-1996 – V 1.0
Jason Arnott, Nick Stajuhar, Jason Bonsignore, Ryan Smith, Steve Kelly, Boyd Devereaux,


1997-2000 – V 2.0
Michel Riesen, Michael Henrich, Jani Rita, Alexi Mihkinov,


2001-2006 – V 3.0
Ales Hemsky, Jesse Niinimaki, MA Pouliot, Devan Dubnyk, Rob Schremp, Andrew Cogliano,


2007-2012 V 4.0
Sam Gagner, Magnus Paajarvi, Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent Hopkins, Oskar Klefbom, Nail Yakupov,


2013-2018 V 5.0
Darnell Nurse, Leon Draisaitl, Connor McDavid, Jesse Puljujarvi, Kailer Yamamoto, Evan Bouchard


And now we have yet another massive failure and a launch of yet another rebuild by another new GM, who will ultimately have to sell off as much garbage as he can to establish a new core.


2019-??? V 6.0


Who is the first pick of the latest Oil Change after-school special?

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The Oilers were a semi competitive team in the late 90s though and reached the finals in 2006. Their rebuild really started after the 2007 season where there was the attempted scoring by committee by Sykora, Hemsky, Smyth, Horcoff, Stoll, and Lupul. That along with a hope that Pisani would grow after his play in the 2006 playoffs (spoiler: he didn't). The Oilers would then begin their long trend of disappointing or rushed first round picks (Gagner, Plante, Nash, Paajarvi, Nugent-Hopkins, Yakupov)