So how are they going to screw this up?

NHL Public Relations ‏@PR_NHL 

The @EdmontonOilers have won the NHL Draft Lottery and now hold the first drafting position for the First Round of the 2015 #NHLDraft.

 

 

Darren Dreger ‏@DarrenDreger  6 minutes ago

“@Real_ESPNLeBrun: Right now Oilers CEO Bob Nicholson just fainted”. So did Sabres gm Tim Murray.

What a joke.

Booooo

YES!!!!

 

I'm sure they will screw things up again

Ha ha ha ha ha. He didn't seem too excited by the thought of Edmonton. In fairness though, Edmonton has great experience at turning top picks into mediocre NHLers.

Other than the Leafs not a franchise that deserves this less. Maybe he'll refuse to report.

Sucks to be the teams that tanked to try to land that pick.

McDavid on the phone with Lindros right now...

He didn't seem happy and honestly I wouldn't be either. Edmonton is such a poorly run franchise. If I'm Edmonton I'm moving one or more of hall Eberle draisaitl or RNH for D help cuz without any legit D men it won't matter at all how good McDavid is

I like what Noeller had to say about the oilers in a different thread: they need to be backing the money truck up to Chiarelli's door right about now.

They've gotta do something to show they're serious about turning it around. The franchise's credibility will sink even lower if McDavid refuses to report.

And as always lol Leafs.

McDavid will go to Edmonton. I just think he would have preferred Toronto or even Buffalo.

Sucks to be the teams that tanked to try to land that pick.

Oilers were bad but not deliberately bad IMHO.

 

Now my views on Buffalo are well know. I hate what management did to that team. I feel that their fans have had to go through 2 years of tanking to get high draft picks and lost the lottery both years.

 

On the bright side the #2 pick is almost as good.

Hockey gods hate tanking it seems

Oh well at least Evandet Kane will get to play with Jack Eikel LOL ...

McDavid will absolutely be the missing piece, the answer in Edmonton...

 

...Just like Hall, RNH, and Yakupov all were

Eichel will be better because buffalo is actually building a team the right way. D and centers

Oh man am I excited. Get some defence and a tendy for next year and we are rockin in the AB capital. Stoked for next fall since the Jets are about done now.

Get some d and goaltending lol. Yup by trading hall Eberle RNH or and draisaitl plus. Oiler fans are awesome tho. Another first round pick to come save the franchise. Until Lowe macT and those guys are gone the oilers will suck. McDavid or not.

Big difference between McDavid and all the others who came before.

It's been said before. Oiler management will screw it up just like before and until the oilers start winning. Well. Nothing can be said to make me think otherwise. Great having all these skilled forwards but with no d or goaltending they won't win.

They need a rule to prevent this from happening again. A team should not be rewarded for such poor management.

I'm sure McDavid will report. It's what you do in sports. But his agent will probably have some tough question for management about the future. As much I would hate to see a player refuse to report I would laugh if it did happen.

Ha ha ha ha ha. He didn't seem too excited by the thought of Edmonton. In fairness though, Edmonton has great experience at turning top picks into mediocre NHLers.

I was more amused by the GM from Buffalo and his reaction.  Hello Eichel can hear you.

Oh man am I excited. Get some defence and a tendy for next year and we are rockin in the AB capital. Stoked for next fall since the Jets are about done now.

Is "tendy" something people say in Alberta?

What the Buffalo GM said was taken out of context, he basically said he'd rather not be there, I mean really, Buffalo has finished dead last the last 2 seasons and have ended up picking 2 both of them, I'd be pissed if i was Murray too but he did say he was preparing to lose the draft lottery, he wasn't taking a shot at EICHEL, he just basically said, and it's not an exact quote but similar to "i'm not a fan of the process". The process being the GM's or reps of the teams show up, sit there and do nothing for an hour, then fly back. I believe he made a remark saying something like, it would suck to be the kings gm or rep to have to fly across the country really only to find out one minute later, it was pointless and he's right. What should take 5 minutes takes an hour. I wouldn't be happy if i was him either and in no way did he take a shot at Eichel, he actually praised Eichel many times, he just said he'd rather have the 1st than the 2nd, and honestly, who wouldn't. Also i think if a team other than Edmonton would have won (4th first pick in 6 years), he probably wouldn't have said a thing. I'd be pissed if i was the gm or rep of another team, You can do this over the phone, it doesn't need to be a one or 2 hour show on a network.