The Edmonton Oilers
Would anything be worse than the Edmonton Oilers claiming their fifth number one overall pick in the past seven seasons?
It’s hard to imagine, right?
The Oilers currently have the second highest percentage chance to win the lottery (13.5%) as with 72 games played and just 61 points earned.
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They drafted Connor McDavid with the number one overall pick in 2015. You may have heard of him. He’s pretty good at hockey.
Unfortunately for the Oilers, Mr. McDavid was injured after just 13 games and the Oilers’ season fell completely apart. This despite Edmonton also having Taylor Hall, Nail Yakupov, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins on the roster.
All of those names are recent number one overall draft picks.
The reasons why Arizona Coyotes fans should fear seeing Matthews on the back of an Oilers jersey are many, but we can summarize:
- Edmonton is in the Pacific Division and I don’t foresee Coyotes fans or the organization being thrilled to stare down the barrel of the Connor McDavid/Auston Matthews one-two punch for the next decade plus.
- Edmonton is where number one overall draft picks go to waste and wither away. So far, several of these Oilers picks have gotten their points and put up some decent numbers, but the winning has certainly not followed. Would that change with Matthews? Who knows, honestly.
There is another Canadian option which would also be…hard to stomach.
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