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Related: On Wednesday morning, the Oilers scouts met to finalize their top 150 for this Friday's NHL Entry Draft. Follow the link for a never-before-seen inside look at the meetings: 700K 2007-08 was the first season with Stu MacGregor as head scout for the Edmonton Oilers, taking over from VP of Hockey Operations Kevin Prendergast. With that change comes some differences in the scouting pro football online cess. -Stuey-s a lot harder on them than I am,- Prendergast chuckled. -It-s been a little bit different for me, being on the outside looking in. He-s taken over that group. It-s his group now; they-ve done a great job and worked extremely hard this year.-The 2008 NHL Entry Draft also differs from 2007 since the Oilers only have one pick - a selection later in the opening round to boot. However, wi football online th the potential for a trade on the horizon the scouting staff needs to be prepared for any situation. -From a scouting department-s standpoint you-ve got to be ready for anything. We could move back in the first round, we could move up in the first round or we could get extra picks,- said Prendergast. The VP of Hockey Ops said that one thing that will remain the same is the meetings leading up to football online draft day. The scouts already met in Salmon Arm, BC to determine their top 150 and starting this morning in Ottawa they will evaluate those selections to come up with a final ranking. -They-ll go into the meetings the same way we-ve always gone. We-re going to put the top players available all the way through to 150 on our list and be ready for anything that happens at the draft.-Stu MacGregor, w football online ho was previously a member of the scouting staff before earning a promotion to head scout, doesn-t feel things are all that different this season. -I-ve had to coordinate some of the travel and the focus of players that we-re following. That-s about the only difference really,- he said. So who are the Oilers- scouts? There is certainly a sizeable number acting as the team-s eyes and ears all acros football online s the planet. Chris McCarthy lives in the Boston area and covers the Tier II junior leagues and colleges. He also travels to the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) as well as the junior-aged United States Hockey League (USHL). Bill Dandy also primarily covers the QMJHL. Brad Davis and Kent Hawley cover the OHL as well as Tier II junior in both Ontario and Quebec. They also cross over into W football online estern Canada for the WHL, the USHL and Minnesota High School leagues-They get a considerable cross-over and see a lot of the players,- MacGregor remarked. Bob Brown covers the Western Hockey League and Tier II Junior in Western Canada for the Oilers and is based out of Surrey, BC just outside Vancouver. He also keeps an eye on Minnesota High School as well as the USHL in the United States Midwest football online . A new scout for this season is former NHL player Mike Peluso. -He lives in Minneapolis and he covers Minnesota High School Hockey as well as USHL. He comes periodically into the Western Hockey League,- said MacGregor. Over in Europe, the Oilers have a pair of scouts in Kent Nilsson and Frank Musil. Nilsson lives in Stockholm, Sweden while Musil resides in Jihlava, Czech Republic. -Frank gets int football online o Russia a little more than anyone else because he-s able to speak Russian and has an easier time to travel into that area, although most of us travel into that area as a follow-up and cross-over to give further evaluation.-FROM BEGINNING TO END football online
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