The very last thing the Flames should do is squander assets to move up in the draft.
The Flames only have about 6 above average forward/D prospects (Granlund, Baertschi, Gaudreau, Jankowski, Wotherspoon, and Sieloff) with several others that are okay like Arnold, Agostino, Hanowski, Deblouw etc.
The Flames should try to get more picks in the top 60 in this draft. Ideally, that would come from dealing off most of the veteran players on this team. The slightly less preferred but still useful method would be trading down to pick up a few more picks (not with the top pick, but with any of the other picks we might acquire like the Pens pick)
This draft is fairly decent in terms of depth, where a guy that goes in the second round should be good enough to possibly be a top 2 liner. So there should be quite a few guys that could be potential impact NHLers. Getting more darts to throw at the board means more chances of hitting the mark.
If you look at the 03 draft (not comparing this one to that), the Predators had 3 picks in the top two rounds. They spent the first on Ryan Suter. The next on Kevin Klein, and then the third on the best of the bunch in Shea Weber. If they didn't have multiple picks, they likely would've lost out Weber, their best player.
We are in a rebuild mode, so we should be collecting as many assets as possible.
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