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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
He's talking about trading our next years first round pick in order to acquire a second top five pick in this years draft.
I don't think it will be possible, but if it was, why wouldn't you?
1. If the quality of the top five in 2013 is similar to the top five in 2014 then we'd end up with the same quality of prospect one year earlier.
2. If this happened at the draft, and we ended up with #3 like the poster speculated, that would be guaranteed, where as next years pick wouldn't be guaranteed top 5. Likely top five, yes.....guaranteed, no.
Anyways, not likely to happen, but I would trade that 2014 pick if it meant leaving the 2013 draft with MacKinnon AND Drouin, instead of keeping the pick, leaving with only MacKinnon, and then waiting another year to see where the chips fell.
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If you received a pick in the top 5 in a 1 for 1 deal, then sure, but the opposing GM would and should be fired for that. It's not like it'd be a guaranteed Crosby type player coming back in 2014. so I'm not sure what the incentive would be to put the pick off for a year.
The more likely scenario would be that we would have to move one of our firsts this year + 1st next year and maybe a roster player or two to move into the top 5.
Considering the Flames are starting in the first year of at least a 4 year rebuild to do it properly, it doesn't make sense to waste assets. Moving up in the draft does waste assets, especially when you're moving from around #20 up to the top 5. If anything, it might make more sense to trade down slightly to get more picks depending what's on the board at the time of our 2nd pick.
The most important thing is to be patient and not to rush things. Otherwise mistakes are more likely to occur.