{"id":755145,"date":"2016-09-23T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoilersrig.com\/?p=17081"},"modified":"2016-09-23T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T19:00:10","slug":"oilers-right-shot-defensemen-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/oilers-right-shot-defensemen-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oilers and Right Shot Defensemen: &#8220;They Are Who We Thought They Were!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Dennis Green rant as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals always makes me laugh.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Dennis Green &quot;They are what we thought they were, and we let them off the hook!&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SWmQbk5h86w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Green is right! They are who we thought they were!<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the Oilers and drafting, that thought is what sits with me when we start to discuss why they don&#8217;t have enough right shot defensemen on the team. Why do I said that? Where am I am coming from? Let me try to build a shared reference point.<\/p>\n<p>As training camp nears, the Edmonton Oilers have two right shot NHL defensemen on their roster! Two! Seriously, two!<\/p>\n<p>I think many reading this site are probably well aware of this, so this post serves more as a rant for me. I am a big fan of the NHL Draft, of prospects and development&#8211;in a sense, planning for what is to come. This is where &#8220;They are who we thought they were!&#8221; comes from.<\/p>\n<p>Many have knocked the Oilers for bad drafting. Many, including me, think the they have a really messed-up sense of developing their  prospects. But how about drafting for success? Many bloggers and writers&#8211;and even the GM himself&#8211;have talked about the lefty-righty balance and how the Oilers lack it. I strongly believe in the draft, the develop and plan for success model. The main reason why the Oilers have such a lack of right shot talent on the back end today is because they failed to draft and develop it 3 to 6 years ago. With this thought in mind, I decided to take a 10 year snap shot of the Oilers&#8217; draft history and how many right shot defenceman they drafted.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look:<\/p>\n<p>2005 &#8211; 8 players drafted, zero right shot defensemen<br \/>\n2006 &#8211; 5 players drafted, one right shot defenseman (Jeff Petry, 45th overall)<br \/>\n2007 &#8211; 6 players drafted, one right shot defenseman (Alex Plante, 15th overall)<br \/>\n2008 &#8211; 5 players drafted, two right shot defensemen (Johan Motin, 103rd overall; Jordan Bendfield, 193rd overall)<br \/>\n2009 &#8211; 7 players drafted, one right shot defenseman (Kyle Bigos, 99th overall)<br \/>\n2010 &#8211; 11 players drafted, one right shot defenseman (Jeremie Blain, 91st overall)<br \/>\n2011 &#8211; 9 players drafted, zero right shot defensemen<br \/>\n2012 &#8211; 7 players drafted, zero right shot defensemen<br \/>\n2013 &#8211; 10 players drafted, zero right shot defensemen<br \/>\n2014 &#8211; 6 players drafted, (you guessed it!) zero right shot defensemen<\/p>\n<p>In summary, that&#8217;s 10 drafts and 74 players drafted and only 6 right shot defensemen! A meager 8 percent of the players drafted were right shot defensemen! Is that setting the Oilers up for success? Nope.<\/p>\n<p>We also know that the odds of draft success decline the later a player is drafted. Blue Bullet did some <a href=\"https:\/\/bluebulletreport.com\/2016\/04\/01\/expected-draft-value-of-a-second-third-round-defenseman\/\">amazing work<\/a> on drafting CHL defensemen and their draft success. Please click on the link, but I will summarize. After pick 30 of the draft, the likelihood of drafting a CHL defenceman who plays more than 100 NHL games and also averages 18:30 minutes is 17% at pick 31 and 3% at pick 90. If we look at what the Oilers did (I know not all of them were CHL defenceman), only 2 of those drafted were even picked before 45. The other 4 were all drafted at 91 or later.<\/p>\n<p>I am not much of a gambler, but that is a stacked deck against you. The next time we talk about why the &#8220;Leftorium&#8221; is so over crowded and the right side is a barren wasteland, we need to remember WE ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Dennis Green rant as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals always makes me laugh. Green is right! 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