Prospect Info: 2024/25 Oilers Prospect Thread

[dem]

Haven't watched one second of Sam O'Reilly...
but those numbers.. draft+1... on the London Knights..

Not good. At all.

Don't tell me he's projected to be a 3rd liner...
Draft+1 You better start scoring. No matter what you're projected to be.

 

[CycloneSweep]

Haven't watched one second of Sam O'Reilly...
but those numbers.. draft+1... on the London Knights..

Not good. At all.

Don't tell me he's projected to be a 3rd liner...
Draft+1 You better start scoring. No matter what you're projected to be.

I was originally concerned with his numbers from last year and was informed it was a deep team and that he will have an expanded role this year. Seems that was true for a bit but his team pushed him down a bit cause they didn’t like him in that role.
That said, it seems more magnified but how well Nicholl is doing.

 

[McDNicks17]

Haven't watched one second of Sam O'Reilly...
but those numbers.. draft+1... on the London Knights..

Not good. At all.

Don't tell me he's projected to be a 3rd liner...
Draft+1 You better start scoring. No matter what you're projected to be.

Like I posted earlier, he really wasn't in an offensive role. He was playing between two of the best 20 year olds in the OHL along with the best defenseman in the CHL(maybe the best player in the CHL not named Gavin McKenna even). He was always the guy sitting back, so Dickinson could do whatever he wanted.

O'Reilly isn't in the usual D+1 situation where a guy gets more minutes and more PP time. He still playing hard defensive minutes without much PP time.

Halttunen coming back should be good news for O'Reilly. They'll reunite the best line in the OHL(because that's what they're doing...it has nothing to do with the coaches being disappointed with O'Reilly. The Hunters love players like O'Reilly to a fault) and let O'Reilly play on a line that will run their offense through the forwards more.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Haven't watched one second of Sam O'Reilly...
but those numbers.. draft+1... on the London Knights..

Not good. At all.

Don't tell me he's projected to be a 3rd liner...
Draft+1 You better start scoring. No matter what you're projected to be.

wait till we find out what pick we traded for that packs. The pick is 2025 top 10 protected. Right now we traded 18th overall for a 32nd overall pick. I admit I do no know much about the guy but the trade for me did not make sense at the time and with him sitting 9th in pts on his team in JR? Oiler management is frustrating at the best of times. If we traded our first for a guy who was in our lineup right away? I could understand that. But after we drafted this guy? Nearly all scouting reports had him 3 to 4 years away from seeing any proper time in the NHL and that is my concern. I think Oiler scouts and management fell in love with the "his team won the Memorial cup last season". What I find amusing is William Nichol who the oilers took in the 7th round from the same team has 3 more goals and 5 more assists and the stats I saw has him playing more minutes that Sam. Now that really concerns me. But tracking JR minutes is difficult depending on which website you are using.

WE are in a win now mode and drafting a guy that is far from the NHL. But I have been ranting about the way we have been trading picks away now for about 5 years.

in another thread I posted all the pick in the first 4 rounds we traded and have nearly nothing to show for and it is mind boggling. We traded several picks because we added them to deals to trade out bad contracts.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

wait till we find out what pick we traded for that packs. The pick is 2025 top 10 protected. Right now we traded 18th overall for a 32nd overall pick. I admit I do no know much about the guy but the trade for me did not make sense at the time and with him sitting 9th in pts on his team in JR? Oiler management is frustrating at the best of times. If we traded our first for a guy who was in our lineup right away? I could understand that. But after we drafted this guy? Nearly all scouting reports had him 3 to 4 years away from seeing any proper time in the NHL and that is my concern. I think Oiler scouts and management fell in love with the "his team won the Memorial cup last season". What I find amusing is William Nichol who the oilers took in the 7th round from the same team has 3 more goals and 5 more assists and the stats I saw has him playing more minutes that Sam. Now that really concerns me. But tracking JR minutes is difficult depending on which website you are using.

WE are in a win now mode and drafting a guy that is far from the NHL. But I have been ranting about the way we have been trading picks away now for about 5 years.

in another thread I posted all the pick in the first 4 rounds we traded and have nearly nothing to show for and it is mind boggling. We traded several picks because we added them to deals to trade out bad contracts.

I think the trade for Bjugstad reallt made no sense or was Arizonas gm adamant about wanting Kesselring. I thought a 2nd and a 3rd for Bjugstad would have sufficed.