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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Nashville with four picks in the top 50 of the 2003 draft springs to mind. They skipped on Shea Weber three times before finally picking him with their 4th pick. Konstantin Glazachev was picked before both Weber and Klien in the 2nd but they loaded up and it paid off.
You can't do stuff like this every year but the Flames should be doing it for this year and next.
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They should be doing it every year a with every player with perceived value around the league is coming up for contract and is not in the long-term plans of the organization.
If you are in the 5th place or higher at the deadline, perhaps you hold onto some guys in an effort to make noise in the playoffs, but if you're 8, 9, 10, you deal guys like Sarich, Hannan, Morrison, Jackman.