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YogiBerra · 03-21-2014, 06:57 PM

I dont think we should trade our pick for a young player if its top 5 if you are trading for a young player with a draft pick you are going to be giving up some potential for less risk. At the point we are in a rebuild we don't have the assets or line up where we should be worrying about speeding up development. This run lately has been nice but we will be bad this year and the next.

The earliest i would consider trading our first is 2016 and even then not until we are on the upswing. If Burke is really targeting a defenseman and we can't get Ekblad we could try and trade our 2014 first to a defense heavy group like nashville. That way we could get an established young defenseman for our pick and they could get a forward. It would have to be Josi+? for it to make any sense for us and i doubt Nashville would make that move.

03-21-2014, 06:57 PM	#2000
YogiBerra Crash and Bang Winger Join Date: Nov 2013 Location: Calgary Exp:	I dont think we should trade our pick for a young player if its top 5 if you are trading for a young player with a draft pick you are going to be giving up some potential for less risk. At the point we are in a rebuild we don't have the assets or line up where we should be worrying about speeding up development. This run lately has been nice but we will be bad this year and the next. The earliest i would consider trading our first is 2016 and even then not until we are on the upswing. If Burke is really targeting a defenseman and we can't get Ekblad we could try and trade our 2014 first to a defense heavy group like nashville. That way we could get an established young defenseman for our pick and they could get a forward. It would have to be Josi+? for it to make any sense for us and i doubt Nashville would make that move. Last edited by YogiBerra; 03-21-2014 at 07:02 PM.