No.

It will take more than that to get Murphy.
Try again

Lol yes because Murphy has cemented himself as a top prospect and dman feared around the league.......this trade makes actual sense. Both teams get a somewhat project with big upside. Yakupov has done more at the NHL level than Murphy has and is also younger....This crazy over negativity with Yakupov has got to stop. OK he's not Ovechkin, fine. He ain't George f*ing Parros either!

Team Russia didn't want him. Nobody is being over dramatic lol. Far from it. Yak's value isn't worth a 5th rounder right now...and I'm an Oilers fan

You're not going to get a top defenseman with him but you'll get your own reclamation project from a different team which is exactly why it makes sense, CAR could use the help on the wings and don't need Murphy... 1st round picks always get an extra life, and first overall picks get a lot more (look how many chances Cody Hodgeson had and he went 10th)

Who cares? So Yakupov is not in the 12 most wanted forwards by team Russia. Doesn't mean anything to his value. They chose KHL players over NHL players in previous years, doesn't mean those players were better than the NHL players not chosen. Neither is Burmistrov but that doesn't stop him from being somewhat valuable still.

This idea that he is worth less than a 5th rounder is idiotic. 5th rounders get you AHL players and 4th liners to give you depth. Yakupov's worst season to date still managed more points than some well paid players out there today. MTL paid a 5th rounder to Buffalo for Brian Flynn a couple years ago for depth in the playoffs. He never was drafted and ever scored more than 6 goals in a season in the NHL and really is just a depth forward at best. Yakupov at his worst is a 3rd liner who can pitch in on the PP once in a while. When injuries happen he can easily move up the lineup. Brian Flynn can't. He is so out of place when the quality of defenceman goes up a notch. Yak has the skill to break through where guys like Flynn can't. Its the reason Chiarelli isn't "giving" him away. At a certain point you just have to keep him and hope he turns it around.

When an EDM fan says that Yakupov, a former 1st rounder who obviously has talent and can still be a good player, is worth less than a 5th rounder, it is beyond silly. Yakupov has his faults and needs to improve in some areas but the Edmonton Oilers have been a mess the past 10 years. How about rather than give up on youth for peanuts, get the organization fixed first. That is the biggest problem in Edmonton, not Yakupov.

The risk of not developing Yakupov further and working to improve him into the player you hoped when you drafted him is worth 100 times more than a measly 5th rounder.

With that said, i hope to dear god Chia thinks he's not worth even a 5th rounder and gifts him to Montreal for a song because ivan, i can't wait to see how silly everyone will look when he's tee'ing off on the PP and scoring 15-25g a season on a better team capable of playing to his strengths.