Edmonton Oilers fans content with club's current course, survey shows.It also stung a little that Werenka went two picks before fellow defenceman Mathieu Schneider, who played 1,289 games over 22 seasons. Werenka played 320 NHL games, but just 42 of them with Edmonton before being traded for goalie Steve Passmore, who lasted six games in Edmonton.
The closest they came to landing a player from the second round in the 80s was defenceman Brad Werenka in 1987. Neither one of them played a single NHL game. Edmonton had two second-round picks that year and took Roman Tesliuk 45th and Geoff Paukovich 57th. The second round was a gold mine in 2004, with seven selections going on to play 500 or more NHL games, including David Krejci and Brandon Dubinsky. And, in taking Doug Lynch 43rd overall and Ed Caron 52nd with two second-round picks in 2001, they passed on four second-round options who would go on to play 800 or more NHL games. The Oilers landed Chris Hajt (six career games) three picks ahead of Matt Cullen (1,516) in 1996. Their second rounder in 2015 was wasted on a trade (along with a first rounder that turned out to be Matt Barzal) for Griffin Reinhart, who would play 29 games for Edmonton before his NHL career was over. They took Mitch Moroz (zero NHL games), Marco Roy (zero) and had no second rounders in 20. It was more barren wasteland from 2012 to 2015. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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