How The Oilers Became A Confusing Mess

scores I never thought I'd make it to this day demon Regina Jordan Everly perfect Perfect for Edmonton Oil after a team has run its course, they've made the playoffs, but it's clear this roster isn't built for an inevitable championship. happens step one trade a cold star for assets to build towards the future step 2 lose a lot of games and draft high step 3 get on your knees and pray to the hockey gods for your draft picks to develop step 4 trust the process trust that management is making consistent decisions, whether drafting trades, free agency signings, now combine this with the internal growth of all those high-end traffic and other prospects and eventually you should have a good team, pretty straightforward and, on paper , this is what many fans want.

Hate to tell you burning down a team and being blessed with the draft lottery fails horribly here is a list of the last 15 first overall picks now for these 15 players two only two players have won a Stanley Cup this here emphasizes that no matter how luck your team has or has had when it comes to winning a lottery draw if you are not able to find those extra pieces let alone select the right player, your team is not going anywhere, that makes no sense, hockey is the team sport that no player can do alone. make a team a contender, so what happens when you have four first overall picks in a six-year span, which is not only nominally absurd, but this sort of draft lottery sets a record for the NHL, so the league has new rules where a team can only win two lottery drawings in a five-year span.

Congratulations to Euler management. You were so good at being bad that you single-handedly forced the NHL to create a new rule, not to mention one of those first overall picks was Conor McDavid. man who is arguably the greatest player to ever grace the game of hockey, having put up statistics reminiscent of Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky in an era where defensive strategies have never been so structured that we haven't even spoken of a German man from the colony. dry chair that went through it in general and you know pretty good about hockey, so how the hell did the unprecedented draft lottery luck orders not translate into a Stanley Cup championship because for years the talk of the town was that in three years this team is going to win in five years this team is going to win it just kept happening draft after draft strong starts will lead to complete failure when it matters so when the Oilers landed Conor McDavid, a player who was touted as the next great player all those years of frustration would begin to turn to hope, so what do you think Edmonton had enough draft capital to turn several teams into contenders?

What was the results? Here is a list of all the draft picks Edmonton made between the years 2009 and 2016. And here are the players who have played over 100 games and were on Edmonton's roster until last season. Yeah, I don't even know if I would explain more. In fact, as we saw in a previous video, Steve Eiserman has set a gold standard for how to build the team through the draft because in the same period of time he has been selected with 40 or almost 50 scorers after the first round in Edmonton zero, but hey, what about the 20 scorers Eiserman has selected six after the first round in Edmonton?

Well, you probably know the Answer Zero because if we take a look at this graph, also if you're an older fan like me, maybe go to your grandma's house to eat something comforting or you know, take an antidepressant because with 65 draft picks in this era, I have been in notes on their lottery picks and they have done almost nothing, including the fact that they would ignore all the red flags and draft Neil Yakopov. His preliminary interview is the worst interview I've ever had in my life. The acapods were terrible because they were defiant and unpleasant. as they would stick to their interesting Full Throttle offense draft strategy, so if you look at their team today and think why the hell does Conor McDavid carry this team every year and nothing changes, here is the answer and if you ask why?

Did you draft those ears specifically in 2009? The others had drafted several solid future players, so my thought was how they built around them. By 2016, they had selected Conor McDavid among countless other high-profile picks. They should have been in the containment window at That point is simply based on schedule and opportunity, which you know they had a lot of and I wanted to take this a step further because one thing that doesn't get mentioned enough is how a team uses those. traffic, what is the strategy you follow. With the best player available, do you take a chance on a player with huge upside?

Do you ignore the Russian factor or focus on picking positions because what has to be the biggest example of a perfect draft happened in June 2017? The Dallas Stars would have arguably the most impactful draft in the history of the game, not only did they make no mistake with the third overall pick, they would select a super-fine franchise defenseman and Miro Heskinen, they would become wanted criminals in 30 other cities , since they would. commit a steal by stealing Jay Jason Robertson in the second round, a guy who can't skate but can score so many goals you have to hide your girl if he's a round guy, so a franchise scorer and defenseman ain't bad Now that you take into account that Dallas had the balls to select Jake Odinger in the first round, we now have a franchise player at every critical position without these three players.

I have no idea where Dallas would be today. Not only was this Dallas draft good, it was a franchise upset, which makes it even more

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. Looking back at this graph because this makes winning the draft lottery basically meaningless, but relax Rob, just relax because over the last few playoffs we've seen countless examples of why building a team from scratch leads to championships where Andre Bassoweski has already placed himself. the ranks of all-time greats Carrie Price single-handedly led a non-playoff team to the Cup Final. Sergey Bobrovski has arguably had the greatest playoff goaltending performance in history while researching The story of Euler's porter.

I knew it was a

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, but my goodness, it somehow ended up being a lot more

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than I could have ever imagined. In this graph, we have the Oilers' average combined percentage from 2009 to today. I either didn't include goalies in their UPS call or didn't play more than 15 games, this line here represents their average state percentage in 2012 aka yakipov's rookie year, what do you believe when I tell you the Oilers had a goal Above average, if not exceptional, how does this add up? That's the first strange thing that caught my attention. Secondly, this is where the massive confusion comes in if we look at goaltending before and after the Oilers drafted McDavid, the Edmonton Oilers on average had better goaltending before landing McDavid.

Euler's goaltending stats are rotting my brain, like what's going on. and to give it more perspective, a starting goalie has a percentage of around 910c, so again, if that's the average, anything above 910 is above average and anything above 920 is headed for the elite conversation and here are the average goal reduction stats for a championship team. from 2015 to 2021, yes that's right, a percentage of 927 cents, ladies and gentlemen, and if this wasn't confusing enough if we look back at Euler's draft list from 2009 to 2016, the Edmonton Oilers selected six goalkeepers with an average position of 127. remember. how a city can take a big pair of balls to draft a goalie in the first round, even with countless other Capital projects, somehow, at no point did Edmonton go, ah, maybe we'll focus on a franchise goalie to just one of the best picks, okay, not what. about a second round pick, okay, no, not yet, oh okay, let's keep throwing fliers at fifth to seventh round picks, it's not their fault of course, but they will never play a game in the NHL because this is what that Edmonton would make a big decision by selecting Stuart.

Skinner is a guy you can build around, but as we saw this year it was too late. Stuart can absolutely be that guy. I think so, but if this point and his development, he was basically thrown to the Wolves if Edmonton takes a chance on a goalie and let's just say 2014, a draft where the highest ranked goalies were Thatcher Demko Igor Chesterkin and Ilya Sorokin Edmonton today would be a powerhouse and yes, hindsight is 20 20. but when you have countless opportunities to build through the draft and fail, something needs to change, but again. Rob relax, let's be positive, Edmonton could have their goalie of the future, it's only a matter of time until we find out goaltending is just a variable in 2011, everyone else would have great success in the first round of the draft, rounds two through seven, not so much. since they were drafted Ryan Newton Hawkins with the first overall pick and as for their second first round pick they would select Oscar cleftball and people quickly forget about it but this guy was becoming a great top four defenseman this is the type of person who stabilizes your blue. line, but due to recurring shoulder injuries, Clapham's career would sadly end, which sucks, not only for him but for the Oilers, he's the guy you want to turn into a Matthias-type player at home and for the Oilers this was a huge setback that also highlights the following.

The problem is that the others did very well selecting forwards in the first round, that was not the problem, their problem was the goalkeepers and the defense because, similar to the situation with the goalkeepers, yes. He saves young defensemen like Bouchard and Philip Broberg, but like Stuart Skinner, the development timeline just isn't there and the only defenseman on his team from those countless straps, Nurse Darnell is paid $9.25 millions and don't get me wrong. I think Nurse Darnell gets too much hate. She I love the physical play that she brings to this modern. It was and if you are a nurse and they offered you 9.25 million, how can you say no?

You can't blame a player for getting paid. I don't think anyone will say a word if the damn nurse makes 7 million because the Oilers can't draft and Develop Defense plays a big role in his downfall today because even 10 years later when you're still having the exact same conversation, the year he Coming will be the year in two years, it will be the year that year will come and this brings up the next conversation as someone who is an Oilers fan, I hope McDavid gets the team he deserves, but at what point does he say McDavid, is that enough?

Because this is a story that fans know very well. In fact, we've already seen some strange parallels with Wayne Gretzky. last NHL game with the Rangers on April 18, 1999, fast forward to April 18, 2015. The Oilers would win the McDavid draft lottery, so when the fateful day came in August 1988 that Wayne Gretzky was surprisingly traded to La, this was not only one of the craziest moments in sports history, but it would also set off an incredible chain reaction as it would lead to the sport of hockey having exponential growth throughout the world. world. Austin Matthews probably would have never picked up a hockey stick and if Edmonton had ever traded McDavid he would receive what he could only imagine, the largest trade package in NHL history and don't get me wrong guys this may seem like a topic really stupid conversation, but it's something to consider.

If I were the Oilers I would never do it, there's only one Conor McDavid so I hope they do what it takes, maybe hire Chaika, you know, add some of those illegal fitness tests, but at this point keep Happy Conor McDavid, now on the positive side. Edmonton, the season had four points-per-game players and three 100. Top players, including a divine performance by Conor McDavid, have that Elite star power, Leon Dry, O'Connor McDavid said to win a championship, they also have several key pieces in Bouchard Broberg, Stuart Skinner, who still have plenty of time to grow and develop. and if they do, this would really round out the roster, so while things may seem bleak if you have a Conor McDavid on your team, there is always hope, so with some bold features the Oilers could find themselves in a much better situation next season . let's move on to the team review, the first six, 10 out of 10.

I don't think I need to say much more the last six, 6.5 out of 10. The last sixthey made great strides this season but are still missing those few key players so overall forward score of 82.5 but let's be honest McDavid doesn't even fit the scale so I'll add 10 for a final forward score of 92 .5 percent, top two defenses, 7 out of 10. They have some guys who could do great if they're not perfect complementary pairings for a superstar, but they don't have that overall superstar defense rating of 6.5 out of 10. Again, guys like Bouchard Broberg could really take this blue line to the next level, so we'll see what happens with the 6.5 out of 10 goaltending. but with Jack Campbell disappearing when you need him most at this point, I need to commit to Skinner or something has to change, but what do you think Edmonton needs to get to the next step?

Because enough is enough. I can't stand seeing guys like McDavid come up short year after year due to depth issues. I hope you enjoyed the new and improved format and sorry for my short break there. I took a much needed vacation and since I last uploaded, a lot has happened behind the scenes which I am very excited about and if you guys have been interviewed from the beginning, I first thank you that this channel has gone through so many evolutions in one at which point I was going up three or four times a week. I don't know how I did that. and I think it's time to take my videos to the next level because honestly, living as a YouTuber is very fun but very strange.

I've been doing YouTube since I was about 10 years old. It's a dream to do YouTube as a career. I wasn't sure how it would happen, but I was determined. I ended up going to UNI working in the business world, specifically in marketing, and somehow I ended up going full circle because if you didn't know, I also started a hockey card store where you can buy collector boxes that guarantee really awesome cards and that will only get better. My last pitch focused on Conor McDavid. Thank you so much for the support in that in college I was really focusing on small business and entrepreneurship classes, so doing this side business has been a lot of fun and as always, thanks for checking out abroad.