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Originally Posted by Gaskal
This is generally my take on the definition of a "fleecing", although it seems from the responses in this thread like the general CP populace favors the definition of overall value garnered vs price spent, with the Kiprusoff pick.
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Which is frankly a dumb way to look at it. It's irrelevant if a pick or a player exceeds the recognized value at the time of the trade. Kipper did not have a lot of value at the time of the trade. The 2nd rounder SJ used to pick Vlasic did not have much value at the time of the trade. It wasn't a fleecing by anybody.
Otherwise you have the absurd scenario where if the Flames trade Backlund tomorrow for a 2nd round pick, and that 2nd round pick turns out to be a Hall of Flames defenseman, then that's a fleecing by Treliving. It wouldn't be. A 2nd round pick is extremely unlikely to turn out to be a better player than Backlund. Trading him for a 2nd round pick would be a bad trade.