Some examples of actual trades to move up into top 10 over last 11 drafts. All depends on number of factors, but using some precedent, it shouldn't be extortionate to move up a few spots. Using the 28th pick to move into top 5 seems excessive unless we also get a 2nd back. Anyway...from this website
http://www.prosportstransactions.com...tTrades/Years/:
BJ's pick Nash by moving from 3rd to 1st: Traded 2002 first round pick (#3-Jay Bouwmeester), Panthers option to
swap 2003 first round picks (not exercised) to Panthers for 2002 first round pick (#1-Rick Nash), Panthers option to swap 2003 first round picks (not exercised) on 2002-06-22
Panthers move up one spot from 10th to 9th: Traded 2002 first round pick (#9-Petr Taticek) to Panthers for 2002 first round pick (#10-Eric Nystrom), 2002
fourth round pick (#99-Michael Lambert) on 2002-06-22
Pitts moves up from 3rd to 1st to grab Fleury: Traded 2003 first round pick (#3-Nathan Horton), 2003
second round pick (#55-Stefan Meyer) to Panthers for 2003 first round pick (#1-Marc-Andre Fleury), 2003
third round pick (#73-Dan Carcillo) on 2003-06-21
Carolina moves up from 8th to 4th (BJ's doing it wrong again): Traded 2004 first round pick (#8-Alexandre Picard), 2004
second round pick (#59-Kyle Wharton) Blue Jackets for 2004 first round pick (#4-Andrew Ladd) on 2004-06-26
Sharks trade up from 12th to 8th: Traded 2005 first round pick (#12-Marc Staal), 2005
second round pick (#49-Chad Denny), 2005
seventh round pick (#207-Myles Stoesz) to Thrashers for 2005 first round pick (#8-Devin Setoguchi) on 2005-07-30
Sharks move from 13th to 9th to get Couture: Traded 2007 first round pick (#13-Lars Eller), 2007
second round pick (#44-Aaron Palushaj), 2008
third round pick (#87-Ian Schultz) to Blues for 2007 first round pick (#9-Logan Couture) on 2007-06-22
Predators move from 9th to 7th: Traded 2008 first round pick (#9-Josh Bailey), 2008
second round pick (#40-Aaron Ness) to Islanders for 2008 first round pick (#7-Colin Wilson) on 2008-06-20