I just had an interesting thought, a couple years ago when we picked Baertschi at 13th, Carolina was just before us and picked Murphy (who was ahead of Baertschi on the Flames list). Carolina did us a huge favour in choosing Murphy as he isn't looking too good these days and we have Baertschi who is looking really good. Hell, even if Murphy turns out to be a good player, I'm much much happier with Sven.
That brings me to this year. Carolina is right before us again and I can't help but wonder if they will "help" us out again by giving us the better the player (not intentionally obviously). Do they take Nichushkin, Nurse leaving us with Barkov/Lindholm.
I can only hope history repeats itself.
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