The 2015 NHL draft lottery ignited quite the brush fire in the hockey world. Articles, comments, blogs, and twitter all have been bustling with the same rhetoric, all of it regarding the deservedness, or lack thereof, of the Edmonton Oilers winning the 2015 NHL draft lottery. Did the Oilers deserve yet another first overall pick? Would they waste a generational talent with that pick? Have they ruined prior first round picks? All of these questions and more have run roughshod recently.
For me, this raised a different question, and that was- since Dale Tallon arrived in Florida, how is it that the Panthers have been moving in one direction, and the Oilers in another?