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Originally Posted by ComixZone
When we look at the incompetence of the Oilers, really the only thing they've done right is tank.
Almost every other part of their management has been done at a league-worst level.
Trading has been awful. Free agency has been fruitless if not a disaster. Drafting has been beyond ugly.
It should be pretty easy to assess the Oilers management and the takeaways should be pretty clear: Don't be the worst team managers/amateur scouts/professional scouts in the entire league.
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When I look at the incompetence of the Oilers I see nothing "right" at all. What I do see is them stumbling into the one of the most offensively gifted players of the last few generations through nothing at all beyond sheer luck.
Psytic is completely right: it takes an enormous amount of good fortune to assemble the necessary high-end talent that is required for building a championship team. As poor as the Flames have been at accumulating draft capital, they have been at least as unlucky.