Top-10 WORST Oilers Moves Since Drafting Connor McDavid

[@Wukles]

As a 40 year fan of the team, this was the most depressing video I’ve ever watched on them. Decade of darkness has nothing on the possibility of completely wasting McDrai.

[@TylerQ4]

I completely agree, I’ve been an Oilers fan all my life, and this season has been so frustrating. Don’t know what kind of Oilers you’re gonna get on each night.

[@michaelscore6763]

McDrai - maybe the two best hockey player of the NHL... you are right, that's wasting their talent. Sure, sometimes they loose a puck and then the danger of for a fast goal is high. But exactly that's the job of the GM putting the right players to have the team which can stop this dangers. This video shows all that nothing happened in the last years... What a desaster for the Oilers! Woody was a greatest coach, bit with this defensive players the best coach gets problems...

[@akapanky]

It's depressing because it's true..

[@MrJameslupien]

look on the bright side. At least youre not a sharks fan.

[@mattmallon8436]

Don't forget how Holland's trade for Keith opened up Chicago to be able to offer Seth Jones to his massive deal, thereby increasing the market price for Nurse... who was signed after his career year... with one year left to at least see if he was, at the very least, able to repeat this success.

[@polkhigh3333]

I’m not even an Oiler fan, and this was super depressing, to watch.

[@janchovanec8624]

Same, I dislike Oilers, but can't help but root for Mc+Drai, they are so good and deserve at least not to be mistreated.

[@ejv.96]

nah bro I love it. the oilers talk too much shit. they deserve it

[@gameburn178]

I hadn't realized how bad it was In Edmonton. I thought things were awful in Vancouver, lol.

[@daveo1808]

Imagine Jack Campbell singing only being the 3rd worst move, dear god

[@Jamescraigjohnson]

The humane thing to do is let McDavid go.

[@owenposer6720]

At this point buy him out 💀💀 Seems like they are turning things around, we will see what happens tonight vs VGK

[@omfg322]

Imagine having 4 first overall picks and only western conference final appearance

[@MethEnjoyer_]

Where they got swept too

[@esharp48]

The same amount of Western Conference finals as the Arizona Coyotes!

[@thebigpicture2032]

Brutal mismanagement. Edmonton needs to clean house.

[@lemon7784]

Imagine having Nylander Matthews Marner and Tavares & only one second round appearance

[@-Subtle-]

The next one will be when McDavid walks because he doesn't want to be there.

[@jpanettajr]

As a Bruins fan I can attest to how bad Chiarelli is…. The number of times he overpaid probably costs the bruins a cup or two during the Bergeron/Chara era

[@ryans413]

The 2 that pissed me off the most was trading Hall can you Imagine a line of Hall , McDavid and Ebbs. And 2nd trading for Manning a guy that admitted to purposely causing harm to McDavid. What the hell was PC thinking.

[@amazonamazon4872]

​@@ryans413im not to upset about that hall trade, devils won out on that 😂

[@HenryHoolington]

When Mcdavid gets traded from Edmonton that city is gonna be blue for a long time. Don’t forget they were garbage for 10 years before Mcdavid only to get how many 1st overall busts. Also, this isn’t Arizona or Anaheim this is a strong hockey city. Sucks 2 Suck

[@Etanyos]

Great video! As an Oilers fan it feel like a rock in my stomach to realize we are wasting McD and Drai's careers. So sad. Also drafting Jesse Puljujarvi over Matthew Tkachuk is a pretty big shoot yourself in the foot moment from Oilers front office too.

[@PreMalone27]

Puljujärvi would’ve been a great Oiler had Edmonton did better management and not Rush him into the lineup.

[@AaronAubreyPhoto]

I'm. a Flames fan.. my best friend is a Canucks fan.. to this day he's still pissed they drafted Olli Juolevi over Chucky..

[@owenposer6720]

Can’t blame him, Jesse was highly touted. I’d blame the development more than the drafting, there’s nothing you can really do when you have a supposed generational prospect that fell into your lap.

[@gothaminsanity]

And people ask why Drats and McDavid are playing frustrated Man, i can understand 3-4 Bad Deals there, hockey is not predictable But Seeing all this is really really Bad. Its a dominos of catastrophies

[@tylertokamp2065]

Trading for the guy who injured mcdavid in his rookie season who was rumored to have said he did it on purpose the team captain VERY OBVIOUSLY HATED from their interactions in game footage. Absolutely a major sign that guy had no fucking idea what he was doing. Team chemistry matters and he didn't even consider it... SMH

[@donovankelly1966]

Another tie for #1 : Jesse Puljujarvi . Passing on Mathew Tkachuk to take Jesse and mismanage his development? Stick with him while he sulked and went back to Europe and came back and they stuck with him and stuck with him to the bitter end when he had lost all value . Look back how Glen Sather dealt with prospects ; He gave them a chance , if they didn't take off he moved them out . He didn't let Losers hang around for years poisoning the dressing room . Future #1 : Passing on goalie prodigy Jesper Wallstedt for..."fuck the future , we need to win now!" Fast forward to when Bourgault has been packaged in a deal for a second rate , broke-down goaltender and Leon and Connor have moved on . Cue the decade of darkness 2.0 .

[@AHockey1993]

Once Puljujarvi found his game under Dave Tippett I really thought he would stick around. The draft pick at the time was good. Puljujarvi was ranked top-5 in most draft rankings. Injuries and coaches that had no patience for him (McLellan and Woodcroft) destroyed his confidence. Also the team in his rookie season didn't provide a translator to help him with English to live in the city and he was isolated and alone most days. That can take a toll on anyone. He went back to Finland and came back to Edmonton rejuvenated and played well until Woodcroft became head coach. I agree about passing on Wallstedt. That still makes absolutely zero sense to this day and you're 100% right. The team will package whatever prospects we have left for a goalie now lmao

[@BenjaminDaCunha-ys8ty]

@@AHockey1993 they won’t actually trade prospects for a goalie will they? This season is over. Getting capital for Draisaitl on his bargain contract and trade him for a big haul, makes the most sense to me. After next year he’s not coming back.

[@robnevitt7593]

This all adds up to McDavid moving to an American team in a few years where he will finally have a chance at the Cup.

[@meatmanmagoo]

The move that still baffles me, passing on Jesper Wallstedt. One of the best goalies of the draft in the last couple years, Edmonton was gift wrapped Jesper as he fell after Detroit took Cossa.... but then traded down with the Wild. At the time Jack Campbell was fresh in the net and Skinner was also being looked at, idk you can argue Jesper may not pan out but honestly its just insane to me that you can be gifted a solution and just ignore it.

[@midgetplant281]

Oh ikr… I had briefly left the room and came back in right before the oilers pick, so I had missed the last 5 or so picks. When I looked at the last ones I literally said “oh my god, no one’s taken walstedt yet?!” And then right after I hear Bettman go “the oilers have made a trade” and I went “NOOO” and then he announced what the trade was and I was like “NOOOOOOOOO”

[@AHockey1993]

Yes I accidentally put a "s" at the end of Athanasiou. My bad.

[@danieldosso2455]

I love this! The second coming of Gretzky is also the second departure of Gretzky. I hope LA is ready to aquire the world's best forward for the second time in Oilers history.

[@justawinddown]

That would be the only respectful move for him out of town

[@deeem2628]

Lol but he ain't going to commiefornia

[@Herrlorddonkoenigczar]

@@justawinddownAnaheim is more likely in this decade. Cap space + players coming off contracts + assets

[@tedlakomy950]

The disaster to beat all was the hiring of Chiarelli by Bobby Burger. He completely trashed that franchise which should have won 2 or 3 Cups by now. The next biggest disaster was hiring Holland who has finished off the job Chiarelli began. Bob Nicholson was also a disaster; maybe the biggest. PS: I wrote this before watching to the end of the video. I used to make contributions to the Oilers' message board and 2 minutes after the Chiarelli hiring was announced I went on there and said that he would destroy the franchise. I said the Reinhardt move was stupid as was the Lucic signing and the Taylor Hall trade. I was critical of many of the moves Chiarelli made and was roundly ridiculed by the people running that board as well as many of its other contributors. I remember McCurdy and Staples and the headline "Adam Larsson making Oilers' fans forget about Taylor Hall". I could go on and on but suffice it to say that even though I still like Edmonton and really am bummed that they didn't bring the Cup back to Canada some little part of me is hoping all those A-holes are choking on their love for and support of Peter "Bold Moves Chiarelli".

[@deeem2628]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@bison8745]

Passing Caufield/Zegras and drafting Broberg instead is kinda painful but as a habs fan,i'm glad they did. Is there a worst management in the NHL right now? The only team that come close to this is the Isles.

[@travelbyfire8474]

Thomas Chabot was also still on the board when the Isles took Barzal, in case you wanted a good defensemen. I'd argue that was worse than the Taylor Hall non-sense.

[@ryanmatthew8491]

Chabot has been awful for a while now. He's like the 3rd (maybe 4th) best defenseman on the Sens lol.

[@travelbyfire8474]

@@ryanmatthew8491 I don't follow the team that closely but he has been top 10 in the nhl in minutes for the last 4 seasons and has been playing on a pretty bad all around defensive team. I don't think he is meeting expectations but awful? He's still putting up 30-50 points a season and is getting skated into the ground by Ottawa.

[@ryanmatthew8491]

@@travelbyfire8474 I don't watch the Sens either. I'm just going by what a lot of Sens fans say. And pretty much all of them say Sanderson and Chychrun are better. For a guy that was so highly rated in his first few seasons he definitely seems to get overrated nowadays based on that. I think a lot of his decline is actually a result of his icetime. They overplayed him like crazy the past few seasons, seems to have taken a toll on him.

[@254zero]

As a buffalo fan at least I can say this.... we may have fucked up majorly with eichel but at least buffalo didn't fuck up with McDavid

[@26japrey]

Mind blowing that this team has done nothing with all those top picks they got. The Woodcroft firing was inevitable, there’s no way any coach could have survived that start, but ultimately it all comes down to complete mismanagement

[@jakedasnake98]

I feel like you could add trading down in the 2021 draft to take Bourgault when Wallstedt could have been picked.. As a Flames fan i love how the Oilers are run

[@I_amTurok]

It's amazing isn't it. It's amazing how calgary is gathering around watching Edmonton fall apart😂😂😂 everyone's in such a good mood

[@jakedasnake98]

@@I_amTurok just hope they're not too bad and get the first overall pick... 😂

[@ryans413]

Some more honourable mentions. Firing Todd. Not drafting Wallsted. Not firing Dustin Schwartz the goalie coach. Letting Kostin and Bjugstad walk. Trading Maroon. Trading Talbot. Hiring Tippet and Hitch awful. And lastly wasting 97 and 29s prime times for the last 9 years.

[@hughjass1044]

A little bit like trying to pick out the 10 biggest raindrops in a hurricane, isn't it?

[@aaronsebastian5156]

This team has been mismanaged long before McDavid arrived. Tambellini completely blew the 2012 draft with picking Nail Yakupov. They had three top pick scorers in Eberle, Hall, and Nugent-Hopkins, with a decent crew to round out the offense. Everyone knew they needed defense and goaltending. They wound up trading to get the #2 (Ryan Murray) AND #4 (Griffin Reinhart) picks from that year to shore up their defense and failed. Also, Andrei Vasilevsky went #19, do you think Edmonton might've traded down to get a him and a defenseman? How many cups would Edmonton have picking Vasylevsky and a middle late round defenseman like Olli Maata or Codi Ceci? I know hindsight is 20/20, but they had the opportunity to take a top defenseman or trade down and increase their potential assets, and instead the trend of the Oilers signature "all offense, no defense" and "just out score our opponents" has been a common theme since the 1980s. Edmonton has been a tire fire for over a decade. They made some playoff runs, sure, but it's been on the backs of their offense to outscore their the defense, and it shows when a team, like Vegas last year, shuts them down and runs them out of the playoffs.

[@keyjam9]

You missed holding on to shwartz the goalie coach.

[@AHockey1993]

Schwartz needs to go. It's long overdue. Probably could include that in the honorable mentions lol

[@michaelbutler5923]

As a life long oilers fan, it pains me to say this analysis is BANG ON. We fumbled a generational talent

[@ogrewhelmingg]

worst; not hiring us to run the team

[@AHockey1993]

💀

[@gameburn178]

Looking at this fine video, it is becoming increasingly clear why Vegas and to some extent Seattle as fresh start teams do better than most. They aren't burdened with either old contracts bound to almost-stars (Myers, Kassian, Campbell, etc.,) and they are able to hand pick management people who are post-Cap in mentality. They also don't have any pressure to win; people are just happy to have a team. Don't launch a land war in Asia, and don't look to free agency to cure problems in goal or in scoring would be the warning we should all heed. Draft for goalies, develop depth scoring largely through the draft, and avoid free agency at all costs. And of course, don't trade youthful talent for "role players", including "stay at home defensemen."

[@dgris7944]

LOL you're saying McDavid is "The Best Player the Sport Has Ever Seen?" There's some recency bias for you. Maybe you could make an argument for "most talented 100-foot forward".

[@TheTourist7778]

This video could and should have been 7 hours long

[@AHockey1993]

I'm surprised the script was only 7 pages long lol you're 100% right.

[@brodieallard6638]

Why anyone would pick up Loooch after the kings is beyond me.

[@ront769]

Nobody will touch that domestic thug now.

[@lebumjames1373]

mcdavid's gonna end up being hockey's iverson

[@skyblue2636]

I'll die an Oilers fan. I completely agree with you. btw, Kostin was that one guy that was perfect in his role. Tough and willing, had good chemistry with Janmark, Everybody in the room loved him, he was a glue player. IMO

[@_Kakoosh]

After Holland left Detroit and went to Edmonton, I was immediately worried for that franchise. They might be my favorite team in the west. Really sad honestly what he’s done there. Just glad he’s out of Detroit

[@zo.v1601]

Somehow he had to bring Athanasiou along with him as well 😂😂

[@ryans413]

McTavish , PC , Holland this organization has had 3 idiot GMs all back to back to back.

[@Mulukkis]

Oh wow, it's kinda crazy to see all these moves compiled into a single video. Nice job dude! As a huge fan of hockey in general, I just want to see McDavid play in the SCF. If it's not with the Oilers, let it be somewhere else.

[@drunkreapermatt]

in terms of worse GMs... i have 2.5 in mind. ironically, the 2 are from pensylvania teams. the incompetant duo of Ron Hextall and Chuck Fletcher. One continued his ruination by giving rasmus ristolinen a 5x5 and traded shane ghotshisbere for a back of pucks, the other made the penguis be the flyers. the .5 is Marc bergevin. fumbling the drafts year after year and sticking winth trevor timmins, mismanaging jasperi kotketniemi, letting danult walk in free agency, dominic ducharme, jonathan drouin trade, fumbling the twilight of andrei markov...

[@231krw]

Great Video, not an Oilers fan and feel sorry for those that are. Did Lucic for Neal deserve an honourable mention? Lucic was loved in Calgary despite his big salary, Neal was bought out.

[@jeffrorichard2765]

You completely missed the number 1 worst move …it was drafting Pulijarvi over Tkachuk, Keller, or Sergachev. Trading Hall was needed because Hall couldn’t figure out how to work with McD. He wanted the puck too much. The Oilers draft like shit and need to change something in scouting, and evaluating.

[@anthonys3631]

My nephew was in the Oilers system in Bakersfield and is friends with Nuge. Hall was not a good teammate was told. Lost the locker room and wanted to be team captain. More about him than the team. Locker room cancer. Any surprise he has been bounced around on multiple teams now?

[@borrow4654]

It's incredible that GM still has a job..

[@RRhoads27]

Wings fan here. Ken Holland giving Abdelkader 7x4.25M should have been a major red flag. He waived Kyle Quincey and traded a first to get him back, and that first ended up being Vasi.

[@stewag7007]

Fascinating video. A shame they're going to let two great talents fo to waste

[@austingullickson8529]

Duncan Keith trade was a great one, it grew Bouchards game and Caleb Jones isn’t a regular top 6 defender

[@michaelb5119]

Man i forgot about the duncan keith trade. Also cambell is .819 in the ahl?!? Man poor guy. I loved him when he played here in Toronto but it was clear that he was not a true starter. He was like .940 in the first half and something like .880 in the second. Every leaf and oiler fan i heard thought it was a bad contract and here we are. Feel bad cuz hes like the nicest guy in the world and beats himself up whenever he plays poorly. Must be feeling awful rn

[@ericwiebe613]

I'm sorry man, but this video is making Edmonton's management look so much worse than it is. Half of these are just minor signings where they ended up overpaying a bit. Every team makes these types of deals all the time. Kassian was bit of bad gamble, but nothing crazy. Trading for Keith wasn't a terrible move for a team in win-now mode. Especially considering all they gave was Caleb Jones. Broberg was a regular draft move. Teams draft off the board all the time, and when it works out they look like geniuses. The Eberle for Strome trade wasn't bad. Just because it didn't work out doesn't mean it was a stupid trade. Strome went on to NYR to average almost 70 points per 82 over the next 3 seasons and has been a better player than Eberle over the past 6 seasons. So how was that a bad move, just because Strome underperformed on Edmonton? So many of these are hindsight, not terrible moves at the time. If Campbell played like the All-Star goalie he was the previous year, everyone would be talking about how brilliant that signing was. But regardless, the goalie debates in Edmonton are always stupid. You can't judge a goalie by how they play on Edmonton's terrible defensive team. Good goalies always suck on Edmonton. The Reinhart one is always laughable. They likely wouldn't have gotten Barzal anyway, so adding that narrative is irrelevant. I agree a first and a second was too much for Reinhart, but if Holland thought they wouldn't get anyone better with the 16th pick, then it made sense.

[@AHockey1993]

I pretty much disagree with most of your comment here but I appreciate your input! Not saying that to be sarcastic or anything. We all have differing views and I respect that.

[@ericwiebe613]

@@AHockey1993 Yeah, definitely! The biggest one I don't like is the Strome trade. Strome has clearly been the better player over the past 6 seasons, so I have no idea why people think that trade was stupid.

[@pontusbackman1863]

Puljujärvi should have been here. Either it was Edmonton failing to help him develop him, or he just wasn't good enough, it was still a failure...

[@ronniek7748]

Thanks for the great analysis. I totally agree with you, but have to make one exception! Kassian. Numbers aside, he was a good role model, and provided some desperately needed toughness to this team when at times 13:03 play like a bunch of young school girls in that department. From all that was said in this video, Ken Holland should’ve got the axe as well no doubt about it. He played a big role in all of these dumb mistakes.

[@AHockey1993]

The problem was the price they paid Kassian. I loved him, and was happy he turned his life around in Edmonton... but 3.2 million/yr for FOUR years for a guy that went on a 3 week shooting heater beside McDavid was a mistake. 4 years at 1.5 million would have been much more reasonable and then the team would have had the cap space to sign Nurse long-term for 7m/yr rather than having to bridge deal him a SECOND time. The ripple effects kill me

[@brianschryver8314]

They maybe should’ve got a bit more for Hall. But Hall had to go go, he was a defensive liability with a poor attitude, and only had one outstanding year because the trade gave him something to prove. I was never a fan from day 1.

[@seen48]

Strome not working out was Strome’s fault not the Oilers. Now trading him for nothing is definitively their fault. Same deal with Campbell, that’s Campbells fault, he should have been way better than he has been. All the other ones are just stomach turning. That Gagne one to Detroit is just so……ahhhhhhhhh! The Nurse cap hit is going to hurt us for years.

[@davebarnes9626]

Ken Holland needs to look himself in the Mirror on this one.

[@manthedestroyer]

9 seasons already? Damn

[@Theaveragejoehockeyreport]

Trading for Brett Kulak is another underrated blunder. This is a guy that got carried by Jeff Petry in montreal and wasnt someone the oilers needed. They needed a top 4 dman and hes a 3rd d pairing guy at best.

[@MrSpeck321]

you don't watch hockey.. Kulak is a solid top 6 dman.. & Jeff Petry actually sucks 😂

[@Theaveragejoehockeyreport]

@MrSpeck321 Petry sucks nowadays, but he used to be really good. So I didn't know Kulak had a 20-point season until I looked up his stats. At one point, though, his best offensive season was with Petry until last season. Idk, I think Kulak is a 3rd d pairing at best. His decision-making with the puck was very suspect in Montreal. I don't watch the oilers, I'll admit but he looked pretty bad in Montreal at times.

[@rv2167]

you would need a top 20 list for how many terrible, terrible moves Ken Holland has made in Detroit and Edmonton.

[@xxllbb55]

Holland Your Family is calling …. “ I am leaving the Oilers to spend more time with my Family “ ! HURRY UP and take YOUR $ 9.25 SLUG with you !!!!!!!

[@THELEAFSFAN]

Honorable mention number 8 is now turned into the best move in the McDavid era

[@DavidVandemark]

I saw this coming the moment they hired Holland. As a Wings fan, I saw him destroy the team with his horrible trades and signings. How didn’t Edmonton?

[@thenextguest3230]

The fact this video sounds like a "The top 10 worst moves in (insert team) franchise history" is honestly depressing. The fact that pretty much everyone is at vault here from players to owners is insane.

[@Deans-jm3uf]

Honestly the hall for Larsson trade isn’t the worst. I’d probably put it in the middle of the list. At least they got a solid player in return on a decent contract. Can’t say the same about Reinhart trade and the other moves. Just an overpay.

[@AdBul_]

Could you shine light why Edmonton fans hate Mikko Koskinen? I always see them giving him shit, but from stats he didnt play bad, at least for a team that doesnt play defence.

[@AHockey1993]

He went on a 15-game heater, and then Chiarelli gave him a massive contract before he himself was fired the next day, I believe lol I would do anything to have Koskinen's sv% this season, my goodness. He was hated more than he should have been, but it was because of the contract Peter Chiarelli gave him

[@elizabethmarkoe7776]

I miss Mike Smith 😢

[@TitleistGuy]

And this is why its taken Yzerman 5 yrs to get the wings back to relevance. We had nothing in the minors,and albatross contracts ... i feel so bad for Edmonton bc Mcdavids prime is getting wasted. What a bummer.

[@Kwolf1]

The Larsson-Hall trade happened on June 29, 2016. The same day as the Subban-Weber trade. 2 horrible trades happened the same day.

[@AHockey1993]

Damn I thought it was the 30th. My bad! I was a day off lol

[@Kwolf1]

@@AHockey1993 it’s all good. I remember that day vividly as a Habs fan.

[@AHockey1993]

@Kwolf1 I remember before any news was official I originally thought it was maybe going to be Hall for Weber or Subban... but then it was even worse LOL not that I think Larsson was bad. Just the value was really bad for Edmonton. Would have liked to see Weber win the cup in 2021 with the Habs. What a warrior that dude was

[@Kwolf1]

@@AHockey1993 and then they ending up losing Larsson to the expansion draft which made it worse. Yeah i think Edmonton should have kept Hall.

[@EhHimothy]

You should make a video where you talk about what you would have done instead every year.

[@1ehAron]

That last sentence says it all...

[@patrickkirkham]

Absolutely agree and I hope that they are at least smart enough to not extend Holland this summer….let him walk please

[@lauig]

In the end, does it not tell the story of the Daryl Katz ownership ?

[@RLJ96]

14:17 I would argue that Jim Benning is the worst GM in the league during that time span, but I am just an angry Canucks fan who have to watch him ruined my favourite over the course of 7 seasons. This is a good lesson for teams to know that they should stop hiring dinosour old-school GMs that have been in the league for too long and not understand that the game/league has evolved and changed over time. Refusing to adapt to the new league and continue to run hockey teams like it were still the late 90s and early 2000s is the biggest problem for these GMs. GMs in today's game must be able to work collaboratively with all different staff throughout the organization from top to bottom; they must be willing to listen to new ideas and be ahead of the curve and understand that the league now is not the same league as 20 years ago.

[@chucknorris172]

Losing Jay made no sense. He was never the issue.

[@saschaganser9671]

Duncan Keith was a win! WTF is it on that list? You might argue the price was high, but it was clear that he would retire after one season and the Hawks would have not taken 50% of his cap. Oilers basically paid nothing for him. Nurse was pretty well at his 5,6m and if they would have gotten him at 6,5 or 7m long term it would actually be a great deal. I would have not signed him that year, there was actually the option to just keep his bridge deal and sign him later that year or let him walk. I also disagree with the Hall for Larsson trade - Hall had be inconsistent, ranging from 14goals up to 80 points, which he hit once with the Oilers. They never made the playoffs with him and traded him after a 65 point season. His production did fall in his first season with the devils and only then he had a MVP season in 17/18. Larsson was doing well with the Oilers and they miss a guy like him on the team. They would have a solid 1st line RD, with a good frame and a solid first pass. Signed for 4m he comes at great value, and the issue is that he walked away in the expansion draft due to personal reasons. For sure the Oilers would love to have Larsson still on the team and for sure they would have given him a 4m per year contract.

[@georgecoumbos2511]

Jim Benning: “Hold my beer”

[@colinmunro3266]

Keith and Kass were ok, the contracts were brutal

[@seen48]

How good would Larson look on our team right now! I’d take him in a heartbeat

[@willsk7068]

The worst choice was woodcroft starting skinner who sucks in playoffs in a playoff eliminator game instead of soup.

[@Xstr3ngthz]

I said the same when they kept playing smith…and now skinner both let in bad goals and needed to switch up the goalies in the playoffs

[@theshockmaster8071]

Wow Taylor Hall? THE bust, wow great number there bud.

[@LeeHardingTV]

It all makes sense now.

[@christophermerlot3366]

I'm not even an Oilers fan and I find this team depressing as they waste the best dynamic duo of the era. And worse they had the template for success: Pittsburgh.

[@austingullickson8529]

Broberg was a solid pick to if you look at defensemen only York and Harley are consistent nhlers

[@Herrlorddonkoenigczar]

*Jack Eichel:* “The worst move was Connie, because I’ve won and my contract was moveable lol”

[@TrainWreck444]

I mean, they had 4 first overall picks in 6 years. That was the lead up to McDavid. Well 3 in 5, McDavid was the 4th in 6 years. Its unfortunate for Oilers fans.

[@cackoocacho1629]

Hall had 1 fluke year in NJ to undeservedly win the Hart. He's done precisely jack, and s**t, otherwise. Not to mention, he's locker room cancer, which is quite well revealed in Edmonton circles of players. Hardly the #1 for any list. Hall, is washed up garbage these days, but he wasn't all too much better shortly after they dealt him. Larsson is still missed by most EDM fans, to this day.

[@shabazzed]

i havent gotten this angry at a vid in a long time

[@IanMcSlater]

Im no analyst, not completely up to date with every team or player however i am a long time NHL fan. Not sure ive seen a team make stranger decisions before. Im not even a Oilers fan but feel more frustrated for that team and fans than any other. You get the opportunity to have yet another superstar player yet do very little to build around him. Never a solid defense, goalies who arent even close to cup contenders and questionable additions. Mike Smith? Lucic? and i know Kane is a great player but i find it hard to believe hes good for any teams chemistry.

[@Danny0dbert]

I totally forgot they signed nurse for 8 years to....jeez. All that hype when he played 60 mins that one game got him 9m/year.

[@loltrip2741]

I nearly screamed when You said they they signed koskinen for 4 million… I had no idea..my condolences Oilers fans oh my god

[@Greenfrom3]

I wrote a FB status the day the signed Lucic and the day they extended Kassian. Admittedly i thought Lucic would be better for at least a few years. But i knew those deals were garbage the day they were made.

[@renehendrych3538]

What about Jeff Petry...that was your defenseman.. MTL says THX😅😂

[@BenjaminDaCunha-ys8ty]

Before this season I would have said Holland did a far better job than Chiarelli but this video breaks down how incompetent the front office has been the entire time.

[@AHockey1993]

The fact there have been results under Holland really masks his errors as GM. McDavid and Draisaitl willed this team to a Conference Finals in spite of Ken

[@nosna91]

Honestly I think the firing of woodcroft will prove to be one of the worst moves as time progresses

[@javawsey]

Worst move, giving Nurse, a terrible d man, 10 million. He and Bouchard are brutal in their end.

[@Christopher.Colberg]

What about the trade for neal and his contract?

[@anthonys3631]

it was a straight trade up one bad contract for one bad contract. Neal actually was playing well for the Oil until he caught covid.

[@mryoshi32]

They had to fire Woodcraft, he was needed to do all the media promotions for Trolls 3.

[@MatPayro]

And about a month before Chiarelli was hired edm traded petry to montreal for a second rounder too

[@docriley7837]

Its the Gretzky curse, you traded the greatest hockey player in the history of the sport, you will never live it down Edmonton.

[@DSoka-eb8qt]

The kieth trade was great

[@jayb5071]

Campbell signing Lucic signing Reinhart trade Nurse signing Hall trade Drafting pulljarvi And many more

[@matte8692]

How can you not include trading away Pat Maroon ?

[@jonathanvanessen5438]

They should just trade Mcdavid and draisitl while they can

[@shakeypudding6563]

The Nurse contract will only go higher on the list. 9.25 million is crippling!

[@MrRyjax99]

Keith was fine...not on my top10 worst list