Oilers win NHL draft lottery to pick 1st overall

**Pucker25** · April 11th, 2012, 02:15 PM

They should totally trade down and pick up game ready assets. They need defense and Murray or Dumba won't help them right now. Create a bidding war for Yakupov and trade down for more picks/actual NHL talent

**JEEPKING** · April 11th, 2012, 02:52 PM

its ok, pick away Edmonton. Cause you know as soon as those talented kids can they will do what every other gifted athlete does... GET THE HELL OUT OF EDMONTON!

**rinkrat** · April 11th, 2012, 02:54 PM

I was just amazed to see the words 'Oilers' and 'win' in the same sentance.

**Bollocks** · April 11th, 2012, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by Pucker25

They should totally trade down and pick up game ready assets. They need defense and Murray or Dumba won't help them right now. Create a bidding war for Yakupov and trade down for more picks/actual NHL talent

Exactly. They have enough tradeable talent up front to make their D AND G solid.

**NastiMarvasti** · April 13th, 2012, 03:02 AM

Those young players still have no idea how to win in the NHL and the longer it goes the harder it'll be. Tambellini thinks he's doing what Pittsburgh and Chicago did but those teams actually had a good supporting cast. And how many of these contracts will they be able to afford when the ELC's are up?

**gescom** · April 13th, 2012, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by Vargsmal

wow I feel bad for Jacket fans!

i say HUZZAH for the Jackets. Jackie and the wild back-end bunch ain't gonna cut it if they intend to rebuild correctly - and around Johnson. now they don't even have to blink about taking that defenseman at #2... and clear their consciences about wiping the slate clean when it comes to drafting another Russian forward.

funny thing is, aside from trading the pick - which is what i think they (Edmonton) should do in order to get themselves their Jack Johnson, they SHOULD be the ones taking that Murray kid... but they won't. they'll take one of those Russians. i'd bee seriously floored if they didn't.

Originally Posted by Kubrick

Gee, lemme guess... another small, skilled forward. I love seeing the delusional Oilers fans calling this the "New Dynasty" and talking about their next Cup. Their roster is still garbage with or without Yakupov. The young blueliners they have on the depth chart max out at 3rd pairing guys or PP specialists. Then you look at their future in net and the talent there is even thinner than the talent on the blueline. Just an atrociously run franchise.

bingo lingo, mein Freund!

Originally Posted by 28kings28

Dubnyk looked really good at the end of the season, so there is some upside there. But after that I agree their D and the rest of the G prospects don't look promising.

he's taken a few similar paths to glory before... he's fast approaching do yes or do no time. they done run out of Bababooeys in net to abuse. 'Bulin has been their Dan Cloutier for how long now?

Originally Posted by USCKingsFan31

They should trade down. I'm sure they won't, but they should.

absolutely!

**gescom** · April 13th, 2012, 11:55 AM

Originally Posted by NastiMarvasti

Those young players still have no idea how to win in the NHL and the longer it goes the harder it'll be. Tambellini thinks he's doing what Pittsburgh and Chicago did but those teams actually had a good supporting cast. And how many of these contracts will they be able to afford when the ELC's are up?

one thing's probably pretty chiseled by now... should they take a forward as per their history, Magnus Pajama-Svitem will be traded... thus just rolling over ELC's.

**Big Red** · April 14th, 2012, 09:33 PM

but, but Sam Gagner had 8 points in that one game!

**bladerunner** · April 16th, 2012, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by JEEPKING

its ok, pick away Edmonton. Cause you know as soon as those talented kids can they will do what every other gifted athlete does... GET THE HELL OUT OF EDMONTON!

Edmonton should look the trade route or just draft Ryan Murray because the Russians won't play in Canada's Siberia. The Russians came here to play junior hockey in Canada and that's about it. Having said that if Grigorenko slips to Montreal they take him and throw boatloads of money at him. That's a big if though because Columbus will surely take him if the foolish Oilers take Yakupov. Besides the drafting issue the Oilers are in tough with a whole bunch of dead weight contracts(Horcoff,Whitney,Khabibulin) who collectively had a cap hit of 13.250M last season. Add that to the fact that they will have to trade or give raises to the likes of Gagner,Petry,Dubnyk,and Peckham. These 4 players made 2.25,0.850,0.800, and 1.075 million last winter also. I'm sure they will be looking to double their current stipend. And in a year Hall(3.770M) and Eberle(1.158M) will want a raise also. How much will they command 4,5,6 Million per year. And we haven't even thought about what Yakupov will ask for...surely more than Hall or N-Hopkings so lets say 4-4.5 M...And what will be the sell in Edmonton that the team is a good young team...Hardly...they have some good even great young players but outside of that a bunch of veterans just drawing a paycheck. So Edmonton fans should just look to next years next year country for more hope...

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