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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The good young talent comes from the return in trades you get for Kesler, Edler, Bieksa, etc.
It's not a slam dunk, but you roll the dice and hope the blue chip prospect or the mid-round first you get turn into contributing top 6/top 4 roster players.
The key of course, is you take the deal for those guys while you still can...
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Even then, history shows pretty clearly that the return on these sorts of deals are not those that either make or break the future of a franchise. There are very few and far between that have produced future altering results for any team, and I expect that while the return for Kesler at least will be fairly good, it will NOT significantly accelerate the Canucks' rebuild. Any "good young talent" coming back the other way is not at all likely to be of the blue-chip variety. Mid level prospects and mid-level first rounders only rarely turn out on the roll of these dice.