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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
If that established player is a center who just turned 22 and has shown what O'Reilly has, sure.
There's a huge difference between giving up a player like Gormley or Tarasenko for a couple years of a 30+ year old Jokinen than there is giving up a first round pick for a 22 year old O'Reilly.
Losing a 1st in the Jokinen trade, a 2nd in the Regehr trade, another 2nd in the Cammalleri trade, and just givng anything for Modin probably ends up negatively impacting the future of the Flames as the trades were made with the present in mind. Of course there's a chance all of the draft picks in the what-if world would have been busts and there's other players like Ramo and Byron at play but likely those trades didn't help the future of the Flames 5 years down the road.
O'Reilly is different, that's a player that could be a building block of a franchise for the next decade (although I disagree with Feaster calling him a franchise player).
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I'm not sure anything about the O'Reilly situation in Colorado suggests he would be around for longer than his current 2 years, he is obviously quite keen on getting every penny he can out of which ever club signs him (can't blame him but not a great 'building block' in a lowering cap world).
If you are signing a young player from another organisation to some degree you are exchanging the uncertainty of the skill level of a pick for the uncertainty of problems with signing and keeping them or issues 'in the room'.