Sarnia Sting and Nail Yakupov

On the June 4th Oilers Now, Bob Stauffer makes a comment during the Nail Yakupov segment. He states that Nail Yakupov's Sarnia Sting aren't as elite as the other CHL teams that had a top 3 draft pick stationed there. This statement is true, but it doesn't reflect badly on Yakupov, at least it shouldn't.

Five Alive

Stu MacGregor said today that there are 5 guys left in the running for 1. Yakupov, Grigorenko, Murray, Forsberg, and Reinhart. This is a pretty interesting list, and we should be thankful because teams don't often release this kind of info, especially pre-draft.