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Originally Posted by Caged Great
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.
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That second pick is also dropping like a rock as the Blues are surging up the standings. At the pace they are going and with 2 games in hand they could easily vault themselves into home ice advantage for the playoffs.
At that point, even if they do not make it to the conference finals, we would be looking at a mid to late 20s pick from the Blues. Their remaining schedule is pretty comfy too with 7/10 games at home and most of their games against either bubble or non-playoff teams.
If both the Blues and Pens picks are between 25-30 then it will be that much harder to try to move up with them.
Hopefully the Avs will wake up and knock the Blues down a step. More likely though we will be relying upon the bubble teams (Stars, BJs, Coyotes) to put up a fight.