Why the Edmonton Oilers should not trade Taylor Hal

Everything seems to be on the table when it comes to doing whatever it takes to fix the me s that is the .On Monday they made their fifth coaching change in six seasons by firing Dallas Eakins after just 113 games behind the bench in a move that basically says, "we had to do something, so let's try another coach."But as general manger Craig MacTavish mentioned when announcing the coaching change, the problems in Edmonton run much deeper than just the coach.Obviously.Oilers changes The biggest problem of all is on a roster that is short on talent and has numerous holes at center, defense and goalie. There are only so many things a team can do to plug them. The Oilers' scouting department and player development has been a consistent failure outside of the first-round in recent years, and free agency can be a hit-or-mi s approach that usually leaves teams disappointed for the money they end up spending. The only other option is trade, and on Monday night TSN's Darren Dreger mentioned that the team could consider dealing . Dreger and suggested that Hall has not been everything the Oilers had hoped off of the ice and in the locker room and that he may not be open to change on how the team should play.Hall trade could be considered to change culture and acquire much needed a sets. Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) If this is what the Oilers are thinking, it could be a ma sive mistake and do nothing but make a bad situation worse.Players like Taylor Hall do not get traded very oftenSetting aside whatever might be happening the ice for a minute, let's just look at what it might mean from a strictly on-ice pespective. I get the mindset behind it. The Oilers have a lot of holes that they need to fill, and, in theory, the Paul Blackburn Jersey best way to do that would be some sort of Eric Lindros-type trade where you move one major piece and get a kings ransom back in return. But those types of deals rarely work out, and players like Hall that are as young as he is and as productive as he is do not tend to get traded.At least not at this point in their careers. Since the start of the 1995-96 season Hall is one of only 21 players in the NHL to appear in at least 100 games before their age 24 season and average more than 0.90 points per game. You can see , and it is a who's who list of NHL All-Stars and superstars. The other thing you should take note of: How few of them were ever traded at any point in their careers. And the ones that were traded didn't get moved until they were later into their 20s or into their 30s. Never at the age that Hall is now, which is the stage of his career that should be his most productive years in the NHL.If the Oilers want a le son in what can happen when a team does move a player like Hall at this age, they should look at the and the guy that was picked one spot after him in 2010, .In the NHL you win with superstars. They can't do it themselves, of course, and they need a deep, talented team around them, but every contending team has that game-changing superstar somewhere on their roster and they can be very difficult to find.Hall is that type of player. He is as productive as any other player in the league, and among players that played at least 500 minutes between 2010 and 2014, . Heis one of the top players in the league at his position and is still young enough that he probably not only has room to continue improving, but can also still be a major factor for a contending team in Edmonton at some point down the road whenever their latest rebuilding effort finally pays off (if it pays ever pays off, of course).Players like this shouldn't be traded to fill holes because all you're doing is creating another hole on the roster (a franchise player), and one that is the most difficult to fill in the NHL.But Hall's production isn't the only reason to be skeptical that a trade involving him could be worthwhile.Would you trust this front office to make a trade of that magnitude?As Dreger said on TSN on Monday night, when you're trading a player like Hall you better be "damn certain" it's the right move for the organization. The question then becomes do you trust this front office to not only make that determination, but to also make the type of deal that can bring back the nece sary a sets to make any sort of noticeable impact for the Oilers? MacTavish said on Monday that he has "blood on his hands" when it comes to the current me s that is the Oilers, and a part of that is transactions that have either backfired or been of little to no consequence. Just by the Oilers in the MacTavish era and be completely underwhelmed by them. If your general manager is admitting that he has blood on his hands for the state of the team, what confidence do you have that he can make the proper deal involving one of the few players on the roster that is a legitimate top-line player in the NHL?Whenever a team is this bad, for this long, there always seems to be a sense that it's either the best players fault, and if it's not, then it's best for the team to trade the best player to make the team better. But it's almost impo sible to get fair value back in return for that type of player, and chances are it's only going to make things worse. Eddy Alvarez Jersey