I quote here a comment by SweatyO in a comments thread on mc79hockey.com, mudcrutch's excellent hockey blog which is a favourite of mine even when he disagrees with me, which is often. I know a few non-Oilogosphere participants read this page, so I'm saying this for them. Anyway.

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Did anyone happen to catch “Live From Wayne Gretzky’s” on the radio this afternoon?

Black and Rimmer were talking Oilers, about how if Pronger was here that they would have made the playoffs. Then, a gem along these lines:

Basically, they said Roloson got that big contract after last season’s playoff run, and he “hasn’t performed” this season.

You can tell these dumb fuck Toronto media members don’t watch anything other than Leaf games. Honestly, does any other Oiler (that is still on the team, god bless #94) even have a legit beef to win team MVP?

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I quote this for one reason, and it is to indulge my fantastic pipe dream. If I had to pick an MVP of the players currently on this team, it's probably Roloson, with one of Hemsky or Stoll running a rather distant second. But, much like Carl Lewis in Seoul, we'd all know they didn't deserve to win. Unlike Carl Lewis, however, there'd be one champion we could all agree on. And so, my pipe dream is this:

That the Oilers, in their last home game, send Kevin Lowe out to centre ice and award Ryan Smyth the team MVP.

Of course it's a pipe dream. It could never happen. But wouldn't it be magnificent on so many levels? For one thing, it would let the guys on this team know just what they've done since he left (not very bloody much). They wouldn't need Ryan there for the ceremony; they'd just have to mail him a little trophy care of the Islanders. Maybe save it for after the playoffs, whatever. It might rekindle a couple warm memories in Ryan (remember, if Kevin Lowe signs #94 in July for something even halfway sane, he's going to look like a fucking genius) and wipe away a couple of tears.

Perhaps most importantly, it would tell the fans something: yes, this season was an abortion. We know. Look at us, we're calling a guy who isn't here anymore our MVP. Trust us, we know the score, and we can do something about it.

Sure would look wonderful, wouldn't it?

Why, yes, I did just violate my no-Ryan-Smyth rule! 

 

Lost in the hubbub about our new farm team, the question is: how decent will the current logo look in Oilers copper and blue?

 

On the basis of colour portability alone, I declare this deal a win.

Yes, after rumour and buzz that was positively Pitkanen-to-Edmonton-esque in scope and utter certainty, it's actually come true: the Oilers have an AHL team again.

I wasn't quite as melancholy about our lack of an AHL team over the last two seasons as others; I can't think of anybody it hurt with the possible exception of Deslauriers (who is only now showing that he deserves to be in the AHL anyway) and Dubnyk (who hasn't shown that much yet getting the big time in Stockton). But this is still good news, for obvious reasons, and our injury woes (Smid out now too!) have only highlighted the value in having a veteran defenseman or two to tutor the kids and call up when times get tough. And the chance to control our own prospects isn't a bad thing; just because a shared affiliation hasn't hurt us yet doesn't mean it wouldn't eventually.

In a five-day stretch which has already seen an AJHL team return to my native St. Albert (so building the arena after the team left didn't bite them in the ass too badly), this is a good day to be cheering for young hockey players. Also, the Victoria Grizzlies are well on their way to a third-round playoff matchup with archrivals Nanaimo, and the Oilers are plummeting with great grace into a top five pick. All in all, it's good times to be me, hockey-wise.

I mean, aside from the defensemen. 

If, as some have alleged, the Edmonton Investor's Group is a cynical bunch of money-grubbing bastards who are interested only in squeezing every thin dime they can out of the Edmonton sportsgoing public while chuckling to themselves, lighting cigars with $100 bills, and pushing babies down the Odessa steps, how do you explain the presence of the gentleman on the left?

Lupul's making over $2 million a season and, even though I defend him to my last breath, he's the fans' newest scapegoat, there's a lot of call for him to be traded for a Bergeron-esque return (oh, how's he doing, anyway?), and it's safe to say he ain't putting bums in seats. The comment thread I have linked to even uses Lupul as evidence that the EIG is EVIL!!!!!!!

Yet, surely, the smartest purely financial decision would be to get rid of Lupul for whatever you can get (you're telling me that nobody wants a third-year sniper with top potential?) and call up Schremp or Pouliot, each of whom is making rather less than half Lupul's salary.

For that matter, what the hell is Fernando Pisani doing on this hockey team? Third-line checkers, even really good ones, don't sell seats! That money could be better spent on another Lexus for each member of the board of directors.

Anyway, those who say that staying away from the Oilers in droves will force the EIG to spend the big money should think about the following: how many teams have lost a bunch of money and tried to address that by buying a better team? Not many, and most of those that have boast what could be called "good owners". Which, according to this theory, the EIG is not.

Today, the Oilers recalled the great Bryan Young, a plug defenseman in the mould of nobody you'd be likely to ever want. I picture... well, what the hell does it matter who I picture, he's like nine zillion scrub defense-first defensemen who have come to the AHL before him and ten zillion who will come after him. Most of those guys gets cups of coffee when they're 28 or something, and that's fine. Except this guy is a bloody 20-year old rookie and he wore number seventy-six in training camp and...

Also up, or so they say on Oilfans, is Sebastian Bisallion from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, signed as an undrafted free agent before the beginning of this year. The Oilers are calling up junior defensemen. And do you know who's left after him?

Nobody.

Young and Bisallion are the last two defensemen under contract in the Oilers system after injuries to Gilbert, Hejda, Tjarnqvist, Roy, and Staios, not to mention the usual mittful of forwards. Now, let's face it, if you wanted to tank for a better pick you couldn't ask for much more than this (other junior guys like Peckham aren't signed and couldn't come over during the year even if K-Lowe signed them instantly, while NCAA guys are also unsigned combined with the fact that they could never return to college hockey if they so much as knowledged there was such a thing as professional sport).

You want to talk about a problem with having no minor-league team? If we had our own AHL team, there'd probably be at least one Dan Smith or Alain Nasreddine kicking around somewhere who'd give us another warm body. I bet the EIG didn't think of that when they cheaped out on us once again!

The million-dollar question is, what happens if one of our motley crew of AHL defensemen and Jason Smith takes a puck to the face and is out for two weeks? There are jokes about signing Cory Cross or Igor Ulanov, but you know what? They're both playing in Europe, they'd be hard to get away at quick notice, and they may not even have NHL release clauses.

I never thought I'd say this, but the idea of a Crossanov bottom pairing is too optimistic.

My money is one of those incredibly scrubby AHL/ECHL losers who are kicking around the pits of professional hockey and would probably sign for free if we let them keep the jersey after they left. I dunno. Is Travis Richards still playing for Grand Rapids? He was, like, 36 and I think he played an NHL game 14 years ago. He's the sort of guy I'm talking about here. I know, be afraid.

Also, I hereby declare pommpie.com a No Ryan Smyth Zone until he signs somewhere as a free agent. Don't worry, Covered in Oil, mudcrutch, and Battle of Alberta have you more than covered!

• A season ticket holder was bullied by a couple insecure security guys at Messier Night. Some have said this is an indication that Kevin Lowe needs to go, as though the general manager of the Edmonton Oilers, before a hockey game and major ceremony, had nothing better to do than order hits on people with duct tape on their jerseys. Still atrocious if true, which it probably is, but it doesn't exactly fit with the demonisation of Lowe we've seen since Chris Pronger sold us all up the river. We've all seen overzealous bouncers, cops, and the like who thought their penises were too small or something. Not that this'll stop Mike Comrie and the it's-like-Communism-here crowd, of course. I hope Andy Grabia isn't hauled into a black car on Whyte Avenue and sent to a gulag near Fort McMurray....
• Reportedly, the difference between Don Meehan and Kevin Lowe was on the order of $100,000 per year. Now, Don Meehan could have come down from his $6 million a year demand that he supposedly never budged on, or K-Lowe could have gone up from his already excessive offer after being eviscerated all year for giving too much money to players. Therefore, FIRE LOWE NOW. This doesn't make much sense either.
• 3-0 loss to Phoenix, 5-0 loss to Minnesota. Okay, we just suck on so many levels right now. That does make sense, anyway.

On the heels of the Ryan Smyth trade, the reactions from Oilerville can be summed up in a few basic categories: 

1. Kevin Lowe is a moron. It would be far better for us to let Smyth go for free at the end of the year and miss the playoffs anyway than to grab three legitimate prospects for him. FIRE LOWE NOW.
2. Kevin Lowe is a moron. He should have given Smyth the $6 million a year for an injury-prone 31-year old or whatever it was. FIRE LOWE NOW. Incidentally, these people are usually the same ones who go ape over Horcoff's contract.
3. Kevin Lowe is a moron. An anonymous report on TSN said that nobody in the entire National Hockey League knew Smyth was available, and even though general managers with actual names, months of newspaper reports, and common sense say otherwise, if you can't trust an anonymous report on trade deadline day what can you trust? FIRE LOWE NOW.
4. Kevin Lowe is a moron. He should have demanded established players in exchange for Ryan Smyth, because the sorts of teams acquiring rentals for twenty games are also the sort which will happily dump a bunch of great roster players for said rental. FIRE LOWE NOW.
5. Given that, judging by all the bloody talking Meehan and Lowe were doing for the last month, Smyth wasn't resigning here anyway, we essentially got two great prospects and a high pick for free. It is difficult to find a flaw in this plan.

When I got home from class and saw "Smyth traded", I feel into number two. Forty-five seconds later, I was on my way up to number five. This pattern was repeated many times in Oilfania, with shocked screams of anguish and horror followed by the realisation that we got appreciably near what Philadelphia got for Peter Forsberg in the worst overpayment since Lindros for a guy who was on his way out anyway.

Let me put it in terms we can all understand. Smyth was gone. This was a fait d'accompli. Whether you think this is because the EIG is too cheap or because Kevin Lowe has learned his lesson from the flaming bags of poo the Pisani, Roloson, and Horcoff contracts have gotten left on his lawn is irrelevant. Given this, would it be better for the Oilers to:

• Trade Smyth at the deadline. The best-case scenario is that he resigns here as a free agent and we get free stuff. The worst-case scenario is that he doesn't, O'Marra and Nilsson are busts, we draft Jesse Niinimaki's brother Bob, and we're exactly where we would be anyway, or...
• Keep Smyth past the deadline on what is almost certainly a non-playoff team. If the efforts of the last month weren't getting him resigned, nothing probably was. The best-case scenario is that Don Meehan gets hit on the head and he re-signs, so the best-case scenario above but with less free stuff. The worst-case scenario is that we get nothing at all.

This isn't exactly advanced game theory. And those who think that Kevin Lowe could have gotten more, presumably based on the inside knowledge that Eklund gave them or some such nonsense, should probably remember that this was the trade deadline. If somebody out there was desperate enough to fling three top prospects and a first round pick for Smyth, that woulda been the time. If anything, K-Lowe held on too long in hopes of getting a Smyth signing and missed out on Atlantapalooza and the possibility of getting a bunch of guys in lieu of their grabbing Tkachuk. And a team trading away any established players under contract that would have been worth having for a rental seem remote at best, because the whole reason you rent a player is to add another established guy to your lineup.

Therefore, and I don't care how much K-Lowe jism some of you think is on my face for saying this, I am happy with this trade. So there.

(Also, this spam filter seems to be doing okay, so comments are re-enabled. Hooray!)

It's amazing how calm and sedate I'm feeling about the Oilers missing the playoffs this year. I was thinking about it after witnessing the Oilers tossing up another duck against Minnesota Wild and their goaltender Niklas "Who the Hell Am I?" Backstrom. I'm not alone, either. Frankly, it would be a lot easier to blame the Oilers for not giving a full effort in the last game of a brutal seven-game road trip if it weren't for the fact that even the fans can't give a full effort anymore. Look around the boards and blogs; with the exception of the stupid people who shriek for K-Lowe's execution every time we allow a shot and the lunatic fringe (our very own Ryan Smyths) who would sooner tear off their own face than concede defeat, there is a strange resignation to our fate, and an awful lack of concern about it.

Now, we're left cheering for a team that's pretty good, that's gonna be better next season in all probability, and that has some bright spots. Check out that Marc[-Antoine] Pouliot, eh? Finally looking like a keeper! Jeff Deslauriers belongs in the American league at least, and then there's the Hockey Jesus in the background. And who the hell would think Zack Stortini would turn out to have game already? About all that rouses emotion in me is the thought of losing Ryan Smyth, which, good-for-the-team Keith-Fucking-Tkachunk-got-three-picks aside, has me screaming and chucking stuff at the mere idea.

With that in mind, this post is looking towards the future of the team. We're not going to make the playoffs. Meh. We'll kill 'em next time! 

• Jean-Francois Jacques: 0.69 points per game in the QMJHL, 0.73 points per game in the AHL, sweet f-all in the NHL. Also, he's 6'4", built like a house, has hands, and can skate. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there's something about the NHL lodged in the back of his brain. Lowetide mentions that K-Lowe compares Jacques to Ethan Moreau, but Moreau's numbers to this point in his career are an awful lot better. Then again, Moreau peaked offensively at age 22. I still think that Jacques, barring a serious mental problem, can make it.
• Jeff Petry has already quietly doubled his offensive output last year with Des Moines in the United States hockey league. Now, my mental book of hockey leagues puts the USHL slightly below Canadian junior 'A' so the raw numbers are nothing to write home about for a second-round pick, but when he goes to college next year, he'll be interesting to watch.
• Picture a guy who had a blazing first few seasons in the NHL as a highly-touted prospect, had a great shot, couldn't play defense, had his effort criticised, worked hard and is now still young, on the way back up, and playing on the penalty kill. Yes, it's Columbus's famous super-sieve Rick Nash, who I was rather astonished to learn is backchecking and doing okay for himself these days! Of course, the trade-Lupul crowd would have dumped him for Bryan Berard long ago. And they'd look pretty stupid.
• Theo Peckham started off this year in the OHL as Bobby Orr, but he's officially regressed to Colton Orr and turns out to be pretty well what we thought he was. Supposedly, he played the Ryan Smyth role on the powerplay earlier in the year, but the coach seems to have gotten cold feet about putting a defenseman up that high and Peckham's output has adjusted accordingly.
• People bitch about the Oilers' not having their own American Hockey League team, but name me two guys who've been hurt by it. Devan Dubnyk's ECHL stats suggest he wasn't ready to co-platoon with Jeff Deslauriers, who's getting the big starts in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. And I seem to be the only guy who thinks Robbie Schremp getting benched a lot is a bad thing (and it would probably happen no matter who was running the team).
• I have a lot of faith in Kevin Lowe's eye for defensemen, and when you look at Denis Grebeshkov's numbers relative to other Russians in his age group like Babchuk, Tyutin, and Volchenkov, he starts to come off okay. He can play defense, he has enough size to succeed, and 76 points in his last 123 AHL games is pretty damned awesome. Check out Grebeshkov's teammate with the 2004-05 Manchester Monarchs, Tim Gleason. Much worse numbers than Grebeshkov, a few months older, no better defensively, already an established pro. I'm pumped up about this kid.

I don't mean to alarm you, but I actually got the Detroit game right in my road trip predictions. I know, this is blowing me away too. I'm going to boast on those rare chances when I get one right, dammit! 

As just about every Oiler fan worth his salt must know by now, the Oilers flipped Marc-Andre Bergeron to Garth Snow and the New York Islanders with a third-round pick for prospect Denis Grebeshkov. Grebeshkov probably bought himself a one-way ticket out of the New York Islanders system when he decided that playing at home in Russia for more money as opposed to playing in the AHL for less money this year sounded pretty good to him. This led to his getting tagged as a "typical lazy Russian", which is weird because deciding to play professional hockey in the third- or second-best league in the world near your friends and family for a good chunk more than you'd make otherwise would strike most of us as a no-brainer.

Grebeshkov is 23 and already has 33 NHL games under his belt, plus copious professional experience at other levels for a guy his age. The word on the street is that he's a top-six NHL talent already who wanted a one-way deal out of the Islanders reflecting that. Who knew the Islanders could make bad player management decisions? He's got nowhere to go but up. I'm the biggest Bergeron supporter on the planet, and though I'll miss Frodo, I like this trade.

Of course, we all know K-Lowe has a habit of working in pairs, and as such there are probably a million Oilfans waiting on the edge of their seats for the other shoe to drop. But presuming there is no other shoe or the other shoe drops in the direction I expect, this sends a message I find very comforting: the management crew have decided not to waste time and assets on a likely-vain surge to get into the playoffs, and have decided to just develop what they have and get more.

While we'd all like to see some playoff dates, of course, let's be honest: this probably ain't the team to do it. No defense, a few key injuries, and a coach too rock stupid to get us wins in spite of that. And I believe that Grebeshkov is a fine young NHL defenseman with tremendous upside, while Bergeron, for all the love I've given him, has never been tabbed by me or anybody else as more than a bottom-pairing defenseman. In short, Grebeshkov is already as good as Bergeron is and will get better. That ain't a bad trade.

(P.S.: One of the developers was nice enough to drop me an e-mail re: my persistent complaints about this software. For obvious reasons, he thinks quite a bit more highly of the spam filtering than I do, but he's convinced me to give it another go. Eventually. When I can get around to finding the patience.)

This humble page has received a number of hits from some poor bastard searching Google for "brad winchester hot oil". You want these gals. Although I'm kinda struck by the idea of somebody knowing the Oilogosphere well enough to wanna find hot oil and not knowing it well enough to know that the South Smythian Rolo-Gator ain't it.

Also, I'm disabling comments by default now and lapsing into Colby Cosh mode, because spam is now at a few hundred posts per day and LifeType seems to lack any effective means to filter it. Just FYI.

Well, the Oilers lost again. As if that weren't bad enough, they lost in overtime, thus dropping my record for predicting this road trip to a tidy 0-2. I believe that the hockey gods are making up for my managing to select Fernando Pisani in my playoff pool last year.

By now, I suspect all but the most hardened Oilers fanatics are lining up in the "it'll take a bloody miracle" camp for this season. There's nothing inherently wrong with this, mind - this is a team that has a fair record of being one of the 16 teams that gets to the Big Dance every year, despite being in a murderous division the whole bloody time.

The line of conversation, as such, is inevitably falling to what moves Kevin Lowe should make. The absolute screwjob Philadelphia laid on Nashville for about four games of Peter Forsberg today might well set a baseline for renting out, say, Ryan Smyth to, say, Buffalo; a player who, while not as good as Forsberg, is a hell of a lot more likely to play some hockey games for you.

Personally, I'm in the "keep Smytty" camp for now, if only because I watch the Oilers because the entertain me and even if he signs here in July I'd feel just a little dead seeing "2006-07 Won Stanley Cup with Buffalo Sabres" on his career recap in ten years (I'd be happy for the guy, but still...). At the same time, if we got whatever the equivilant to Scott Upshall, a top prospect, and some nice picks would be, it would be damned hard for Kevin Lowe to say no.

Daniel Tjarnqvist wouldn't even fetch us a hug on account of his injury problems and his not being Peter Forsberg. To me, that leaves Petr Sykora as prime trade bait. The guy isn't as bad without Hemsky as has been advertised, and while his price wouldn't be in Smyth's vicinity he has some obvious value to somebody. Let's say that some poor bastard flips us their equivilant to Marc-Antoine Pouliot for Sykora (and don't pretend it couldn't happen; rental prices have been demonstrably high, the runners-up from the Forsberg sweepstakes might be looking to settle, and who better is out there?). Is there anybody in Oilerville who doesn't make that trade right now? The team should also look to trade Markkanen, who if he can fetch an asset of any sort is worth losing, and maybe one of the fourth-line roleplayers like Moreau or Reasoner. Not that there's a lot of value in any of them, but every little bit helps.

Ladislav Smid and Matt Greene continue to improve, Smid in particular. Pouliot is finally looking like a keeper. Hemsky, despite a rough night tonight, is obviously still improving, and we all know the leap Jarret Stoll made before his eggs got scrambled. The draft isn't great this year, but the Oilers have a couple cracks in the first round, and there are some promising kids like Trukhno, Cogliano, and Peckham coming up. So if there's a year the Oilers have to say "reload", this is a pretty good one.

Spam update: about 19,000 spam comments. No, that is not a misprint. By the way, LifeType has no effective spam filter than I can see and only allows you at the comments ten at a time, meaning I'd have to go through about 1,900 seperate web pages to delete all these. Er... suffice to say, I haven't got the fifteen years that would take.

At any rate, it's busy time at university and I should be writing my papers, so obviously I'm going to post to my Oilers blog instead now that I actually have something to say. The Oilers obviously put on a hell of a show in their fine, fine pummelling of Atlanta: that was almost perfect hockey out of the Oil and I have no complaints. So, with this little shred of optimism, I've chosen to look ahead to their road trip and what I think the Oil can expect.

Any seven-game road trip is obviously rather rough, but it might do the Oilers some good this time around: gets them out of the city, away from bastards like me, lets them sleep in hotel rooms and keep their mind on the game. It helps. Sometimes.

So, on a game by game basis, what do I see out of the Oilers coming up? The metric I'm hearing in the comments is five of seven equals success, and I think that's a bit of a tall order, considering that one of those seven is at Buffalo... but I shall continue.

@ Boston: I've gone on the record (elsewhere) as saying that in the long term, Calgary lost the Brad Stuart trade, trading two solid young players with nice contracts for a press box guy and a rental who does not solidify their major weakness and who does not make them a serious Cup candidate. But, more importantly right now, it sends a message to the Boston organisation: "look at us, we're in rebuild mode!" Jazzed up Oilers + downhearted Bruins = Oilers win.

@ Buffalo: Stick a fork in us. Buffalo is scary good. They're my early Cup favourite as they'll be well-rested after the West is done beating the hell out of itself. And this team seems to be incapable of putting a solid effort together this many games in a row. Oilers loss.

@ Toronto: I have no data to back this up and I can't be bothered to look it up, but it seems to me that the Oilers' record over the past few years in really huge regular season games on "Hockey Night in Canada" isn't good. That said, Toronto, much like Edmonton, is a real Jekkyl and Hyde team capable of looking great one day and miserable the next. Still, two in a row here feels right. Oilers overtime loss.

@ Ottawa: This game could absolutely go either way. Like the Oilers, the Senators are locked into underachieving and seem to be unable to right themselves. Then again, expectations on the Senators were a lot higher. In this battle of the Death Swoons, the less mediocre is king. Oilers win, but I'm not comfortable predicting anything.

@ Columbus: This entirely depends on who's in goal. If one of Norrena, Leclaire, or Conklin manage to appear, the Oilers should prevail. But if, God forbid, the Blue Jackets call up a little-known rookie from Syracuse and give him his first NHL start, we're in big trouble as always. Otherwise, with the Hitchcock Lustre officially wearing off and the team falling back into old habits, I see an Oilers win.

@ Detroit: You know how, even in Edmonton's most heart-breaking seasons, they'd always have that one game at about this point in the season where they go into the barn of a really good team, absolutely needing a win, and they put on a classic hockey clinic; finishing their checks, playing really hard, taking three gritty goals and some solid goaltending? This game reeks of one of those. Oilers win.

@ Minnesota: Oh, and we've hit a snag. A Northwest team, on the road, in a game that we really, really need? Minnesota's pretty bloody good too, and for all the energy Stortini's been bringing, I suspect Boogaard might be able to keep him in line. Book this one. Oilers loss.

So my prediction for the roadtrip is a record of 4-2-1. Considering there are pretty good teams on this slate and an Eastern swing, I don't think this is bad in most contexts. But at the same time, we could certainly use five or six, couldn't we?

As a reaction to the unprecedented stupidity going on on a very good message board, as well as the fact that this is the first time he's played really badly in thirty games or so, I hereby declare my opinion that Marc-Andre Bergeron is the second-best all-round defenseman on the Edmonton Oilers.

Does that make him a good all-round defenseman? No, but this is the Edmonton Oilers.

BOB FREAKIN' ESSENSA is Boston's goalie coach? My favourite goalie in Oilers history? Why was I not informed?

Also, dig the cream-coloured suit on Goalie Bob. He sure can dress like an NHL coach, that's for damned sure.

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 1 RW Jordan Eberle    Reg WHL   05-1990
 2 LW Slava Trukhno    Spr AHL   02-1987
 3  C Riley Nash       Cor ECAC  05-1989
 4 LW Rob Schremp      Spr AHL   07-1986
 5  D Taylor Chorney   Spr AHL   04-1987
 6  D Theo Peckham     Spr AHL   11-1987
 7  D Jeff Petry       MiS CCHA  12-1987
 8 LW C. Vande Velde   ND  WCHA  05-1987
 9  G J. Deslauriers   Edm NHL   05-1984
10 LW Liam Reddox      Spr AHL   01-1986
11  D Alex Plante      Cgy WHL   05-1989
12  G Devan Dubnyk     Spr AHL   05-1986
13 LW J. Jacques       Spr AHL   04-1985
14  D Josef Hrabal     Spr AHL   08-1985
15  D Cody Wild        Spr AHL   06-1987
16  C Ryan O'Marra     Sto ECHL  06-1987
17 RW Alex Bumagin     Myt RSL   05-1987
18  D Johan Motin      Bof Swe-2 10-1989
19  C Tyler Spurgeon   Sto ECHL  04-1986
20  C Tim Sestito      Spr AHL   08-1984

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