Too much time and optimism on my hands here
What about this scenario;
The standings as they are now are the same at years end
5.Tampa
4.Carolina
3.Calgary
2.Florida
1.Colorado
Colorado wins the draft lottery
Avs select jones
Florida selects Mckinnon
the flames after seeing they won't be getting mckinnon have lindholm and barkov higher on their list than drouin. flames trade their 3rd overall pick and the pitt pick to tampa for the 5th overall pick, nikita kucherov and their 2nd rounder.
Tampa gets moves up and gets Drouin and swaps their 2nd for a 1st rounder.
Calgary gets the player they wanted anyway in lindholm or barkov they only move down 6 or 7 spots by taking tampa's 2nd rounder and gets Kucherov who's tearing up the qmjhl right now.
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/p...php?pid=123889
Seems to be win win for me.
with that trade in 1st 2 rounds the flames could come away
Lindholm (5)
Ristolianen (20)
mueller, zykov, or petan etc. (35)
and kucherov a player that's a year older and dynamite prospect
wishful thinking? doesn't seem like tampa would be getting fleeced at all though
would also do the same trade with carolina for victor rask