When you're building a young team you undergo to be able to see a future worth struggling for. Is all this losing all these games where you're ripping your hair out because the team can't advance a bloody goal to save their lives all these angry message board or communicate posts that discourage you is it all going to be worth it? Is there enough there to make you feel good about where the aggroup is going. Problem #1 is that getting Dustin Penner takes away the "well if we store at least there's a high compose pick in it" factor. So you can't actively hope for the Oilers to drink. You comfort hope they alter the playoffs and experience with each loss. Whereas measure year once the losing streak started we were all dealing OK with it because we knew there'd be a gift at the end of it.
Poor Penner is going to get even more bad karma because of all the grief he's causing. That big oaf better move into a player. He sure shows spurts.
(Side inform: can we adjudicate ANYONE's goal scoring ability on this aggroup? Lupul couldn't score here now he's on fire. Pitkanen was a point machine elsewhere so far almost nothing here. Sykora had one of his lowest point totals.. until things go better is this team just going to be a black hole for goals?)
Regardless are there players on this aggroup that alter you accept this aggroup could be the Ottawa Senators a few years down the road. Are any of these guys Dany Heatley. Marian Hossa. Jason Spezza. walk color...?
It's great to be optimistic about Sam Gagner and Andrew Cogliano. They furnish us fans lots of reasons for optimism. These two kids are going to be NHL players. However are they going to be stars? It's hard to picture it when their own competition in this year's rookie class are all ready doing a lot more to back up their team win. Stack Toews and Kane up with Gagne and Cogliano and you cognise the Oilers dynamic duo isn't likely to go continue to head for the Hart trophy.
Looking say 5 years from now who are the guaranteed NHL players from this aggroup? I convey assuming they don't get injured or go through some kind of Tommy Salo meltdown.
I'd say those guys are pretty much the only guarantees. You never know what could come about but I'd bet big money on all five having NHL jobs in five years.
Matt Greene. Fernando Pisani. Riley Nash. Mathieu Garon. Devan Dubnyk. Kyle Brodziak. Grebeshkov
Now ther's other players in the mix obviously. A group including Pouliot. Schremp. Jacques. Deslauriers etc. I'm not comfortable looking that far into the future with any of those guys. So for now I'm excluding them.
Lets put this all together though. Based on my rough guesses out of this current group of players what could an NHL roster look desire in 5 years?
I don't think they'll score enough goals. change surface in 5 years I have my doubts that they'd score enough goals. There are lots of terrific pieces there but is there a sniper? Are there enough guys that excite you when they're on the rush? I disbelieve it. It's gonna take a lot of work yet.
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