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Originally Posted by frinkprof
As for the suggestion above of attaining potentially 4 or 5 first round picks, I'm not so sure that's the best idea. Presuming that you would certainly want all of those picks to become a part of your system for their entry-level deals, that gives you potentially 4 or 5 entry-level contracts expiring in the same year or within a year of each other, without any one of them being a superstar-level player (i.e. top 5 pick). Not quite the same situation as the Oilers, but similar. I think a big part of building a team is staggering the big contracts and having a diversity in age groups. You can't just go all in one year and construct a World Juniors team. Having 3 first rounders is certainly a good thing. Doing a combination of trade-downs to end up with 4 or 5 might get to be too many all in the same draft. Could just as easily pay off big time though.
Just some thoughts.
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Outstanding post, lots of work and thought went into that case study
thanks frinkprof