Quoting: KennyBeans
No offense but you are way off in most of your comments about the Oil. First since PC took over and brought in Gretzky for scouting, the drafting and stock piling young assets has been great. This has been a the biggest blemish with rhe team for a decade and its finally looking up.
Has there been some bad trades and signings? For sure...not everyone can be Steve yzerman. Saying that id do the hall for larsson trade everyday to get rid of that clown.
Last Lucic does have speed for a big guy. Everyone looks slow with McDavid next to them. He had a bad half a season, who cares. It happens. He has great hockey sense, really good hands and usually money on first passes.
Do some homework before posting...
That clown? Hall and McDavid would have been insane together and Larson is just a solid right hander. That trade was terrible. No point in sugar coating it, all that does is open the door for your GM to make other stupid moves.
So when did the Oilers start drafting well? This past summer? If you look at the history of their drafting, 2011 is the last time they've managed to get 2 decent NHLers out of the same draft. They've been okay in the 1st round and have nothing to show for themselves in any other round since 2011. That is terrible drafting.
Here is all the homework you need, Edmonton wasn't a good team last year. The reason being, they looked slow outside of McDavid, they couldn't score much outside of McDavid and Talbot was average.
How do they improve on that? Well they need to be faster, but that's tough because they just don't have many fast guys in their system that look like real NHLers. They need to score more but they need more talent to do that. And they need a better season from Talbot, which I think will happen.
Edmonton will improve but they need to do a lot of work to get the depth you need to be an elite team.