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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The real question is how do you rebuild without having more and better picks than your peers? Just hope that you consistently outsmart every other team in the conference with your drafting? The whole point of a rebuild is to stack the prospects deck in your favour with more and better picks. So if we don't get them from trading our vets like Cammalleri, where do we get them?
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One way is winning trades like the Leafs did. Toronto got Phaneuf, Lupul, Gardiner, JVR, Bolland, Bernier, Franson for relatively little. I do agree with most of what you said and it appears every year at the draft decent players are moved for 2nd round picks and if the Flames can get 3 more of those then they have some good chips to trade for new veteran players at the draft.