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Originally Posted by _Q_
So 2014 1st + 2013 St. Louis 1st + Baertschi + one of Cammalleri/Tanguay/Stajan/Stempniak for a top 5 pick?
Would anyone do that?
I would.
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I would not do that at all. That's massive overpayment. I wouldn't deal away Baertschi in any circumstance. You've got a player here that's got a good ceiling and if we don't take the time developing him what's the point of this rebuild?
Realistically, we don't know what's going to happen until draft day itself. We might have a good idea of which teams will draft which players in the top 3, but there is no guarantee they will. Us winning the draft lottery and trading our #1 overall for Colorado's #2 overall would be about the closest thing to certainty of getting MacKinnon or Drouin. But even that is dependent on Colorado finishing 30th, is it not? If Colorado wants Seth Jones, which seems to be the word on the street, and they draft anywhere in the top 5, we can trade them our #1 overall if we won the lottery. But we don't know who Florida or Carolina are looking at.
To be honest, I wouldn't look at trading our top 5 for anything less that what I've said above. If anything we might trade our St. Louis 1st round (mid-pick) + another player to move up in the draft, so we have a crack at picking 2 players in the top 10. If we want to see the results of a rebuild much quicker than everyone wants we might have to get 2 'franchise' players in this draft. With 3 first round picks we've got the leeway to maneuovre that kind of a result. With a draft this deep its a good possibility that 2 picks in the top 10 will go on to be elite players in the NHL, and form major cogs of our team for the next 5-10 years