It took two miserable years and 105 losses to bring Taylor Hall and Nail Yakupov to Edmonton, and just over three months for Peter Chiarelli to ship both of them out.
The Oilers general manager knew when he got here that fixing Edmonton’s spiralling rebuild would require gutting some major parts, and he isn’t been the least bit shy about getting it done.
“He isn’t and that’s probably a good thing,” said Chiarelli’s first order of business in the summer of 2015, head coach Todd McLellan. “Insanity is sticking with what you’ve always done and ending up with the same results, especially if they’re negative.