This is the day of Connor McDavid. Not the lack of oxygen in the Bruins’ suite nor the trades that embolden the competition of the wild, wild west can change this fact: THE biggest name in play, this day, is Connor McDavid.
Best gift for ever for Oilers fans? #McDavid pic.twitter.com/jbfz4X2SJk
— _ (@MissFit_) June 26, 2015
The Oilers have two picks (No. 1 and No. 16) and will be using at least half of them. Connor McDavid should be drafted around 5:20 Edmonton time and from there it’s going to be a free-for-all. Edmonton has 10 picks in this draft, it’s doubtful they will use all of them.
No one can say Chiarelli didn’t try. Seems Bruins wanted more from Edm. Similar to Van and Schneider deal in 2013. https://t.co/5Z1DsTEkZ0
— Jason Gregor (@JasonGregor) June 26, 2015
Yes, pressure on Chiarelli to land D-man and upgrade blue line. Only thing worse than coming away empty is getting hosed to fill those needs
— Robin Brownlee (@Robin_Brownlee) June 26, 2015
LRT: If @HackswithHaggs‘ source is correct (and I believe he is) that’s unconscionable stupidity on the part of the #Bruins.
— Jonathan Willis (@JonathanWillis) June 26, 2015
Oh, those Bruins.
— Lowetide (@Lowetide) June 26, 2015
#oilers Peter Chiarelli confirmed to #tvasports he was right in the middle of the Dougie Hamilton derby.
— Renaud Lavoie (@renlavoietva) June 26, 2015
MCDAVID!!!
NHL draft starts tonight. Presumptive No. 1 pick Connor McDavid is described as a “once in a generation” player pic.twitter.com/fkCSYvoeOk
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) June 26, 2015
PHOTO: Top prospect @cmcdavid97 spending time with the legendary Bobby Orr prior to the #NHLDraft #PastAndFuture pic.twitter.com/vWULGoZy6K
— NHLPA (@NHLPA) June 26, 2015
3:47PM
I’ll be situated in the far back corner @pintedmonton until further notice. #ComeSayHi #McJesusLovesYou
— TheTowelBoy (@TheTowelBoy) June 26, 2015
Boston is piss drunk right now.
— Matt Henderson (@Archaeologuy) June 26, 2015
Word from @JasonGregor and @TSNRyanRishaug is Chiarelli and Wilson chatting on draft floor. 16th pick for Brent Burns? I’d do it.
— Robin Brownlee (@Robin_Brownlee) June 26, 2015
CONGRATS, DALLAS EAKINS!
Eakins said he’s learned from Oilers HC experience. “I believe I’m 10 times the coach now than I was when I came out of Toronto.”
— Eric Stephens (@icemancometh) June 26, 2015
Eakins on Oilers’ youngsters as whole: “They’re going to be a dynamic group at some point. With every year, they’re getting there.”
— Eric Stephens (@icemancometh) June 26, 2015
4:02PM
#Oilers were in on Hamilton but Bruins went with Calgary. Will the wheeling and dealing continue? One hour to go…
— Chris Wescott (@TheChrisWescott) June 26, 2015
4:16PM
I’m deleting anyone in my TL that isn’t talking about #McDavid or mentions anything about the #Canucks. #Oilers
— Jamie (@jsumios) June 26, 2015
4:29 PM
Cam Talbot and the #Oilers are kinda like the new Jim and Pam. #yeg #theoffice #willtheyorwontthey
— Courtney Theriault (@cspotweet) June 26, 2015
Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli spoke to Gene Principe about the flurry of activity surrounding the 16th overall pick. http://t.co/XNdz1gWloG
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) June 26, 2015
4:34PM
Chiarelli and Sather just broke from another discussion. Slats now meeting with his group. Has to be about Talbot.
— Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) June 26, 2015
Make fun of the #Oilers getting the first-round draft pick!!! #ConnorMcDavid Cry out it!!!! ?? #NHLDraft pic.twitter.com/K20JnrZf5R
— Chantelle EE Miller (@TrixieLeRue) June 26, 2015
4:45PM
Soon. #OilersDraft #NHLDraft pic.twitter.com/oeCNIwocBD
— Edmonton Oilers (@EdmontonOilers) June 26, 2015
WOW! John Shannon speculates perhaps Tuukka Rask could be headed to EDM. Now THAT would be enough to wipe this perma-smirk off my face.
— Tyler Shakur (@FortShox) June 26, 2015
I’m…I’m just so happy. #McDavid #Oilers pic.twitter.com/TlRMW55slR
— Greg (@gcoolridge) June 26, 2015
SHOW TIME
Suited up and ready to go. #stylin‘ #2015nhldraft @Samuelsohn1923 pic.twitter.com/Kkp6h6cPIn
— Connor McDavid (@cmcdavid97) June 26, 2015
5:10PM
The past, present and Future all in 1 pic!! #NHLDraft2015 #ConnorMcDavid #oilers pic.twitter.com/xVXyCfzs4R
— Sunny Bhamra™ (@SunnyBhamra) June 26, 2015
THE OILERS AT NO. 1
The #Oilers select Connor Mcdavid in the 2015 #NHL draft!
— Edmonton Oilers (@5xChampions) June 26, 2015
HE’S SO DAMN BEAUTIFUL #MCDAVID #SQUEEEE #NHLDraft #MooseLakeDraftParty #OILERS #OILERSBONER #ALLTHEHASHTAGS pic.twitter.com/SqdftThUxq
— McGsus (@Pretty__G) June 26, 2015
— Avry’s Sports Show (@Avry) June 26, 2015
Welcome to Edmonton, Connor. Don’t mess up everything we’ve built the last 5 years! #FutureIsBright
— Taylor Hall (@hallsy04) June 26, 2015
Dad: ‘Connor mcdavid!!!! With the Edmonton Oilers!!!!
Me : ‘they’re using the Avengers theme song!!!!’
Loool our interest is quit different
— Davina Liew (@ddavinaliew) June 26, 2015
We’re all fans here! @RenHotelYEG @EdmontonOilers #NHLdraft #oilers pic.twitter.com/dPVhnoUBKC
— Jordan Majeau (@JordanMajeau) June 26, 2015
Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz welcomes Connor McDavid to the team. http://t.co/UCHTXiMCZZ @SportChek #startsnow
— Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) June 27, 2015
TRADE!
Oilers send picks No. 16 and 33 to the Islanders for Griffin Reinhart.
— SI NHL (@SI_NHL) June 27, 2015
Oilers wanted him in his draft year!! Oilers fired all those scouts lol
— McOil Country (@loc8ingoil) June 27, 2015
Jets draft about 250% better than the Oilers. McDavid aside obv.
— Woodguy (@Woodguy55) June 27, 2015
Welcome back to Oil country and to the Oilers @GriffinReinhart pic.twitter.com/mMhnt0U4nn
— COBRA MILLER (@GNO13) June 27, 2015
Look how disappointed he is, Eastern Media! #McDavid pic.twitter.com/jifygIi7hN
— Mike Eaton (@MrMikeEaton) June 26, 2015
More to come…
Oiler fans need to let dougie Hamilton go. Sweeney drew a line in the sand and said the deal had to include nurse. No way should Chiarelli trade the 16th and Nurse and 2 second rounders for Hamilton, who still needs to be signed. Sweeney then took a package from the flames that was less than the origional draft picks Chiarelli offered up. This was a very poor decision.
Sweeney lost this deal, not chiarelli. It was all in all a stupid move for the Bruins and the flames made out like bandits.
We picked up a shutdown defenceman who is ranked very similarly to Nurse and is ready for NHL minutes. This is not a bad thing, it’s a very good thing. Oilers don’t need more picks, they got a defenceman who fits with the current age group who has the potential to be great. That is Reinhart.
Honestly some of you people must thrive on negativity!
Let’s just throw Reinhart under the bus before he even puts on the jersey.
PC did everything he could and Sweeney (Neely more like it) got greedy out of spite.
What did you expect for 16 & 33. A #1 D man and an unproven goaltender?
Dream on
I would bet Ramo will be signed or Lack will be picked up for a 2nd and a 3rd.
My thoughts
P.S. Welcome Conner & Griff
Is it just me or have we gotten rid of one GM that no one wanted to deal with, for another GM that no one likes and is willing to deal with? I was pumped about getting PC, but now am starting to wonder.
More likely it’s Sweeney and Neely wanting to prove how awesome they are by trying to screw their old GM. Good on PC for not pulling a Milbury, and kudos to the Phlegms for making out like bandits. The Reinhart deal surprised me, but at least the Oilers get a more proven player than a magic bean.
Really? We are going there already? Pathetic to say the least…
NYI fans are laughing at the Oilers.
201 5draft – use their #16 + #33 for a declining asset.
2014 draft – go off board at #3 and pick Leon D
Smartest people in the room. Hubris
They go off the board for Draisaitl? You absolutely have no idea about hockey you?
Peter telling Sweeney they were going to offer sheet Hamilton sure blew up in their faces. Maybe he should’ve waited till after the draft to engage in warfare like that. Sweeney totally wizzed all over Peter and the Oilers parade today. Have to believe he was coaxed into doing it this way, against his better judgement.
Feels like we’ve brutalized behind the woodshed. Still operating like a laughing stock franchise. Bad day to not have your ducks in a row. Your potential starting goalie isn’t worth the 16th, but a probable career minor league blue liner is worth the 16th and the 33rd. Garth Snow just schooled Chiarelli.
If in fact the Bruins made the deal with Cgy because chiarelli ‘threatened’ to offer sheet Hamilton then that would indeed be a brutal misplay by chiarelli. You don’t threaten to offer sheet a player – you just do it.
How the hell does anybody actually know that PC threatened an offer sheet
I call Bull$hit!!
They used to work together. Neely is behind this just like grass is green
Sweeny made mention of it during his interview during the draft. Don’t have the link but it wont be hard to find, further to that he mentioned that Hamilton celling was around 5.5 and wasn’t going to get dragged into negotiations.
In hind site Sweeny should have let the offer sheet happen, his haul would have been richer, but Neely and Sweeny crapped the bed all draft….so there is that.
“Treliving said he started talking with Bruins general manager Don Sweeney about Hamilton soon after the Flames were eliminated by the Anaheim Ducks in the Western Conference Second Round. That’s also when Hartley started to learn more about Hamilton’s game.
“As soon as the rumors [started] that the Bruins would put him on the market, obviously we watched many shifts and many videos,” Hartley said.”
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=772332&navid=nhl:topheads
The stories I have read sound a little different than your take.
Well; with the first round over, knowing what the picks were 1-15, what would ON members have picked at sixteen had they been given the chance.
I think trading the pick was the right move considering the oilers need for right-now players. But having said that if forced I would have liked to have seen either samsonov the goalie (#22) or chabot the dman (#18) or maybe Jacob Larsson dman (#27). And I probably would settle on the goalie – the only first rounder in a very good skater draft that pushed him down the order along with the fact there are quite a few decent right-now goalies on the market.
posted to wrong blog sry.
Chirelli almost made the play I was hoping he would make.
Since he wasn’t going to be able to land a top 2 D with a package that included #16. He went for the next best thing and went for a highly rated prospect who’s further along. Only thing is, I wasn’t really thinking Reinhart, who’s promise has faded a bit. I was thing more along the lines of Shea Theadore or Josh Moresey.
Just for comparison sake here the number s for both Talbot and Lack since their 2010-11 seasons. Bare in mind the NHL level D both have played behind.
Cam Talbot Age 27
2010-2011 Connecticut Whale-AHL
G 22 GA 62 SA 570 S%.902 GAA 2.84
2011-2012 Connecticut Whale-AHL
G 33 GA 81 SA 935 S%.913 GAA 2.61
2012-2013 Connecticut Whale-AHL
G 55 GA136 SA 1,668 S%.918 GAA 2.63
2013-2014 NY Rangers
G 21 GA 33 SA 560 S% .941 GAA 1.64
2013-2014 Hartford Wolf Pack-AHL
G 5 GA 13 SA 171 S% .924 GAA 2.49
2014-2015 NY Rangers
G 36 GA 77 SA 1,038 S% .926 GAA 2.21
Eddie Lack Age 27
2010-2011 Manitoba Moose-AHL
G 53 GA 118 SA 1,474 S%.926 GAA 2.26
2011-2012 Chicago Wolves-AHL
G 46 GA 104 SA 1,387 S%.925 GAA 2.31
2012-2013 Chicago Wolves-AHL
G 13 GA 38 SA376 S%.899 GAA 3.00
2013-2014 Van. Canucks
G 41 GA93 SA1,052 S%.912 GAA 2.41
2014-2015 Van. Canucks
G 41 GA95 SA 1,201 S%.921 GAA 2.45
Well, I know this is a bit late, but geez that Katz kid looks huge. How old is he? Can he play hockey? (Why not have another rich guy from Edmonton to raise another hockey player like Comrie?)