What It Comes Down To
The fate of the Edmonton Oilers atrocious depth on the wing all boils down to a decade of incompetence on the draft floor. The misfire of several trades involving key players (and most recently losing almost every swap involving depth players). As well as overpaying free agents that were a ticking time bomb regarding when their play was about to fall off.
It is the year after year of mistakes made by multiple tenors of management that has led the team to where they are now, and it isn’t something you can fix overnight.
This was a team that just two years ago had many fans thinking they were finally sailing in the right direction. Until the man in charge quickly steered them directly back into an iceberg… and it’s about time he sank with the ship.
Good luck to whoever has to try and fix this mess after him.