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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Franchise centre. You make the trade if it's there.
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Well the issue is we might still get a franchise centre at #6.
In order to answer your question two other questions must be answered.
#1. How big the drop-off is from MacKinnon to Monahan/Lindholm? And on that point we can only speculate because I doubt any of us have seen enough of all 3 guys to judge it with authority. Personally I've seen a lot of MacKinnon and barely any of the other two.
#2. How good are the two players we'll be likely to land at 21/22 and 28/29/30? Is there a chance they could be top two line players or top 3 defensemen? That's gonna have to be up to the scouts to answer, again we can only speculate.
So lets start the speculation! I really, really badly want MacKinnon. And yet trading all three 1st rounders isn't a fist pump, do it in an instant type of trade for me due to the depth of this draft. If this was a year where it is a top 3 and then a dramatic dropoff with a weak first round then yeah, you obviously do it. But if this year is anything like 2003 and there's a small chance we can get a Richards/Kesler/Getzlaf/Perry type of player with one of our other first rounders it would be hard to give that chance up. The player we take at #6 may be a 1st liner and then we'd have two more rolls of the dice at acquiring more talent.
So in short I'd love to trade up to get MacKinnon and have fantasized about how we could do it. But in the end I usually decide it'd be prohibitively expensive and that we probably won't.
I think it almost more likely that we deal up to #4 or #5 to take Barkov and spend considerably less assets doing so.