"If the Dany Heatley trade was completed in 2009, we wouldn't be watching Hall and RNH play together in Edmonton...Oilers would not have finished in last place."
Bob Stauffer (paraphrased) during Oilers/Wild 630 CHED broadcast. 10/20/2011
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If the Thomas Vanek offer sheet had been accepted
It would have cost 4 first round picks
2008: 12th overall, Tyler Myers (given to Anaheim in the Penner offer sheet, Burke traded down for the 17th pick with Buffalo)
2009: 10th overall, Magnus Paajarvi
2010: First overall, Taylor Hall
2011: First overall , Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Maybe Vanek increases the draft position of the Oilers a bit, although I don’t know how much an improvement he is over Penner. One of the things that bug me the most about the Oilers managements relationship with the MSM is how the narrative gets changed over time. They were not in rebuild mode until during/after the 2010 season. They were trying to win and sucked at it.
Even though they should have been in rebuild mode since 2006-07.
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Bob isn’t MSM. Think PR Dept.
Stauffer was pimping this same line last spring. I just about ph’d in to chew on him a little. But, bahh!
I’d say that there is next to zero evidence that the Heatley trade would’ve helped the Oilers.
Adding Heatley would’ve blown them through the Cap.
Would they still have signed Khabibulin?
How much better than Penner is Heatley? How many wins does he add?
That team was structured all wrong – a Cap team; ditto, ditto, up front; too much moola tied up on the Blue; huge goaltending issues – the Heatley trade didn’t solve any of those items.
In fact it worsened a few of them.
Only a Few
If my memory serves me, the last couple of years the Oil were only a few points behind the 2nd worst team. So….with Heatley they may have won a few extra games, and thus, no RNH or Hall.
by oil_fan'n'usa on Oct 21, 2011 12:52 PM MDT up reply actions
Except the lottery for the #1 is still random. Their odds would have been less, but they still could’ve gotten them both.
yahweh decides who pickes #1
by One_Roy_Save_On_The_Calendar on Oct 21, 2011 2:44 PM MDT up reply actions
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