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Originally Posted by McG
We’ve focused on broberg and Holloway departing…but the cupboards are more bare than that.
Staples top 5 oilers forward prospects this time last year and where they are today:
Lavoie: In his fourth AHL season, Lavoie had 50 points in 66 games, but failed to make the Oilers and was waived, with no claims.
Savoie: In his second AHL season, Savoie had 22 points in 63. The Oilers did not offer him a new contract.
Gulliver: In his second AHL season, Tullio had 21 points in 54 games. He was traded with Ryan McLeod to Buffalo for Matthew Savoie.
Bourgault: saw his scoring drop from 34 points in 62 games to 20 points in 55 games in his second AHL season. He was traded to Ottawa for Robby Jarventie.
Petrov: In his rookie AHL season, Petrov had 14 points in 53 AHL games, dropping from third to 13th in rankings of Oilers prospects.
4 of the 5 are out of the Oilers organization entirely.
They really are in trouble.
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Can't help but giggle seeing how they've now essentially dismissed the value of prospects to a team in their current stage to cope with these developments and reassure themselves.
All in. Get a cup and none of it matters!
Unless you don't (which is probable)... then yeah, emptying the cupboards matters a lot.
"We'll bottom out"
Hmm, not sure about that either. You've spend so much dough in FA to reinforce the forward group with aging vets who will put up their share of points. When McD leaves you won't be contenders any more of course, but all those veterans contracts could keep you from bottoming out and in that no man's land
The Oilers are also putrid at developing unpolished talents into polished ones. They need picks to be high to make anything out of them.
Everything will be "fine" up there until it isn't, and it will probably happen in dramatic and glorious fashion.