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Originally Posted by Bingo
I agree ... I think a lot of the pre season talk about moving their first overall pick this year was based on the team moving up the standings and that pick being 12th or 16th overall, not 2nd.
Since they went backwards I doubt that pick is in play.
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They would be foolish not to put that pick in play imo, sure they could get Ekblad but they are supposed to be 5 years into their rebuild, do they want to wait longer to be competitive again or do they want to start being competitive now? If they can get a 2-3 dman and maybe a couple decent filler players why not? Think that is what they need. Although they did just give away a 3-4 dman to us didn't they?
Yes the cap is going up but by drafting high for 5-6 or more years such as they may be doing will not help them long run as they will have to fit these high contracts in some how. They have already tied up a huge amount of money in some fragile kids, leaves little left for the decent sandpaper guys they need to toughen up their squad imo.