Confirmed with Link: Avs Sign Oskar Olausson to ELC

[Perratrooper]

yeah it’s unfortunate how many first round picks we’ve lit on fire over the years, particularly in the 15-32 range.

Hopefully the flashes were seeing from UDFA and late picks such as Prisch and Jed continue

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Yea he's now in that pile of Avalanche wasted 1st rounders, right next to Martin Kaut.

Joey Concushon
Duncan Steroids
Fatso Bleackley
Tyson Slowst
Heartin Kaut
Alex Newjost
Justin Scarron
Oskar Onlyshot

I'd say the pile is looking more like a heap after 15 years.
Won't be shocked to see Gulyayev added in couple years

 

[Grackle Party]

TDL minor trade fodder now

 

[MacKaRant]

Joey Concushon
Duncan Steroids
Fatso Bleackley
Tyson Slowst
Heartin Kaut
Alex Newjost
Justin Scarron
Oskar Onlyshot

I'd say the pile is looking more like a heap after 15 years.
Won't be shocked to see Gulyayev added in couple years

Don't you mean Alex Newslowst?

 

[EdAVSfan]

Joey Concushon
Duncan Steroids
Fatso Bleackley
Tyson Slowst
Heartin Kaut
Alex Newjost
Justin Scarron
Oskar Onlyshot

I'd say the pile is looking more like a heap after 15 years.
Won't be shocked to see Gulyayev added in couple years

At least Newhook and Barron were utilized to get excellent value in trades.

 

[Slowdive]

At least Newhook and Barron were utilized to get excellent value in trades.

I remember Barron in Juniors. I was impressed but he never took the next step either and now he is on his third NHL team. It's so difficult to project players. They can dominate in Juniors but some never adapt to the NHL. That being said I'm not sure what Colorado ever saw in Seimans.

 

[Hasbro]

Alex Newjost
Justin Scarron

Made pretty good use of those assets.

 

[McMetal]

People have been passionately fighting for him in the summer prospect polls for years, and I have been baffled as to why. Literally every year since he went to the OHL in his D+1 season, he has underperformed expectations and fallen short of key development milestones. And every year he's fallen further behind. Olausson over Ivan this summer looks particularly foolish. I wrote him off years ago.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

People have been passionately fighting for him in the summer prospect polls for years, and I have been baffled as to why. Literally every year since he went to the OHL in his D+1 season, he has underperformed expectations and fallen short of key development milestones. And every year he's fallen further behind. Olausson over Ivan this summer looks particularly foolish. I wrote him off years ago.

Nobody wants to plant another gravestone in the Avalanche First Round Cemetary.

 

[forsbergavs32]

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

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Kaut and Olausson aren’t player development, they are just terrible scouting and bad picks. Kinda like how they thought they were getting a hard working leader when they picked Bleackley, when it turned out he was the opposite.

They really should’ve gone all in with MacK and Makar on their cheap contracts instead of trying to outsmart people by building for the now and the future

 

[expatriatedtexan]

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Ah, the Avalanche First Round Frat House. The other side of this hallway has bloody doors labeled Alex Newhook, Tyson Jost and an unopened door with Mike Gulyayev's name on it.

The lower floor housed Conner Bleackley, Ducan Siemens, Joey Hishon, and Jonas Johansson.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Made pretty good use of those assets.

Sold 'em about as high as they could, but Montreal did us two favors and I don't think they'll ever want to trade with us again