i think there might be some merit in trading in a year's worth of draft picks to get into the top 5.
The NHL draft is such a crapshoot after the first 15 or so picks, why not just take out the chance aspect of it.
Not sure it's a move i'd like the flames to make just yet, as they need to basically start fresh, but for teams that have a good stable of depth in their system, i think it would be worthwhile to get extremely high quality in exchange for quantity.
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