Comments on: Monday Morning Standings http://puttingonthefoil.com/2012/02/monday-morning-standings-27/ Edmonton Oilers Blog Wed, 22 May 2013 02:59:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: zackman35 http://puttingonthefoil.com/2012/02/monday-morning-standings-27/#comment-41539 zackman35 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:44:13 +0000 http://puttingonthefoil.com/?p=10327#comment-41539 Good find on the Noel video. When I picture the FHL trophy I picture pretty much what was on Noel’s shirt, a silver plated skull and hockey sticks as crossbones, maybe with a few teeth missing and a broken stick. Good story though, they are always entertaining hearing about the good ol’ days of hockey.

As for McGratton he seems to have quite a few fights under his belt this season and most of them seem hilight reel, would it be a bad idea to sign this guy for some of that toughness? I know he probably wouldn’t play all the games but he seems like he’d be more effective then big Mac was, simply due to the fact that guys aren’t scared shitless to challenge him.

As for the pick, it’s tough to say. I don’t see harm in having too much talent, you can always trade it. Though it depends if it’s a Hall/Seguin race or a top talent then a drop off. It`s a huge difference having pick 1 or 2 as opposed to having pick 4 or 5. I don’t think you can go very wrong drafting high potential centers. It will be interesting to see what the Oilers do this deadline, ST has the opportunity to make quite an impact on the rebuild come deadline day.

]]> By: Racki http://puttingonthefoil.com/2012/02/monday-morning-standings-27/#comment-41522 Racki Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:20:58 +0000 http://puttingonthefoil.com/?p=10327#comment-41522 Holy hell can Claude Noel ever ramble on. Funny story though, especially since it featured “the Hansons”.

Anyways, to answer the question of the week… I think we just draft BPA as usual. The d-man we draft is VERY unlikely to help us this coming year or even for a few years from now, so why bother? By that, I mean, why focus on getting our d-man in the draft when he probably won’t help us for a few years, if even then. We’re likely talking about a top 3 pick here, so we definitely go BPA. It should always be that way.

We can use the 1st rounder as trade asset, sure.. I’m fine with that. I also would be OK with drafting Grigo or Yakupov if we had the chance to, although I am a little nervous about racking up too many skill 1st-overall types. There’s only so many you can fit in and give enough minutes for one, and you can’t afford to stack your whole team with that kind of player either.

So while it would be exciting as hell to have the all star team going here, I’m not sure that is entirely possible. I would consider that top pick in play. But no, it definitely wouldn’t be the end of the world if we acquired the next Malkin/Ovi (so they say) either. It just makes things pretty crowded in our top six when you have 3 budding superstars already (Ebs, Nuge, Hall). It would make guys like Gagner/Paajarvi more tradeable though.

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