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Originally Posted by TheREDarmY
What if Calgary Management view/rank both players as equal and had no preference to who they draft. Would it be smart to trade down to 7th to add a 2nd rd pick?
Obviously this is a stretch. But it could be possible management would be happy with either Lindholm or Monahan. It would be a way to add a second in this deep draft. Would you do it?
Lets stretch this out even more. Lets say Carolina picks Nichushkin, we trade down to 7th and add a 2nd. Edmonton then surprises everyone by selecting their much needed dman in Nurse at 6th. We could then trade down to 8th for another 2nd and pick whoever Buffalo leaves us. Would you do it? and do you think this is even remotely possible?
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The problem with that is that Edmonton likely rates Lindholm and Monahan very similarly as well, and probably wouldn't give up much if anything to swap firsts with us. Maybe they'd give us a late round pick, but a 2nd or 3rd is unrealistic.
If they have their eyes on Nurse, they might be willing to trade a slightly better pick in order to swap firsts with us if they're convinced that we might take him, but they probably suspect that we want a forward anyway.