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Around the League 2019-2025 Edition

CH1 said:
Chia's first trade in Edmonton was sending a 1st and a 2nd to the Isles for Griifin Reinhart. Islanders drafted Barzal with the 1st. Thank you very much.
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It’s not even like this is one of those “stupid in hindsight”. It was already painfully obvious by that point that Reinhart was either a bust, or a low-upside prospect.

And Barzal was the consensus BPA with obvious high-end skill who had slipped hilariously below his pre-draft rankings.

In some alternate universe, there’s an Oilers team that’s spent the last six seasons with a core group up front of Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Mathew Barzal, Taylor Hall & Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. All Chia had to do to have that team was nothing, pretty much.
 
hockeylover said:
Oof.

They really have nothing coming prospect wise either, do they? And only a 1st and 4th this year.
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It's not a terrible group for a change, but nothing other than Evan Bouchard (a #3-4 in a few years, maybe) is close to making an impact. Broberg might be good, but he's a 19 yr old defender (who was okay but just okay in the SHL) so he's probably a year away from making the show as a bottom pairing guy at best. Holloway might be a surprise top 6 centre for them, but he's probably 3+ years away as well.

In true Oilers fashion, their system kind of falls off of a cliff after that. They don't have that bag of guys in the middle of their system like Hirvonen, Miettenen, Kokkonen, Abruzzzzz, Hallander, etc that it's entirely forseeable to have a few quality middle lineup NHL'ers come out of. It's all plug city after their best 3-4 with maybe a few skilled punts thrown in.
 
LeafGm said:
It’s not even like this is one of those “stupid in hindsight”. It was already painfully obvious by that point that Reinhart was either a bust, or a low-upside prospect.

And Barzal was the consensus BPA with obvious high-end skill who had slipped hilariously below his pre-draft rankings.

In some alternate universe, there’s an Oilers team that’s spent the last six seasons with a core group up front of Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Mathew Barzal, Taylor Hall & Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. All Chia had to do to have that team was nothing, pretty much.
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Yep. I was shocked when they announced that trade. That just killed their future so much.
That's why I love Dubas. He never once wanted to move out a core piece. He just wanted to add to the team.
 
JackBurton said:
How the **** can Holland say you can't go all in every year? That was a really bad response.
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They need to be all in every year. Their scouting and development is a tire fire, if they can find teams willing to trade for their futures and give up good players under reasonable contract, they need to do it.
 
JackBurton said:
The pens have gone for it every year for the past 15 years. What kind of message does that send to Mcdavid?
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They were also contenders for 3/4 of that time frame

Oils need to unwind some bad contracts and Baldy mistakes

There is a limit to all in , first order of business is no more dumb moves
 
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