Edmonton Oilers: Should Peter Chiarelli Take Notes From The Coyotes?

Edmonton Oilers: Sunday night saw Coyotes General Manager John Chayka cut the rope with two struggling high profile prospects in exchange for a solidified NHL regular coming off a 20 goal, 50 point season. Many are shocked to see a team give up on a 3rd overall pick so quickly. But is Chayka just ahead of the curve when it comes to asset management?

Edmonton Oilers: Gunna start this off with a pretty staggering list tweeted out by Cam Lewis of players that have outscored Dylan Strome early on in the center’s career:

Now look, its only been two-and-a-half years, so it’s still way too early to cross off Strome from having the ability to become the player everyone expected he would be for the Arizona Coyotes. And in my opinion, the 2015 draft is going to go down as producing the most quality NHL players since the 2003 draft that people are still drooling over 16 years later.

However, with that said, the Coyotes have watched this player more than anyone else, and know probably more than anyone, that he wasn’t going to turn into the contributor down the middle for their club that they were hoping to get on draft day.

At just over two years in, this is when many teams like to throw out the frequent claims that they need to be patient, or that these players take time. Instead, John Chayka decided to go against this traditional method of dealing with struggling high-profile draft picks and got a serviceable top 6 forward for his assets rather than waiting until their value potentially hit rock bottom.

Strome and Brendan Perlini may very well turn out to have solid NHL careers. I especially like Strome’s chances if he’s able to put something together playing next to Patrick Kane and former Eerie Otter team-mate Alex Debrincat. But what if they don’t…