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Originally Posted by New Era
Bull. Four spots in a draft that does not have a consensus number one pick does not cost you a top end prospect. Get real. The player you get at four is likely to be just as good as the guy at one. The only reason you trade up in this draft is to guarantee you get the guy you want. No one is going to cough up a top end prospect to get the right to draft another top end prospect. Where is the benefit for a team to give up two top end assets to get one?
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If Baertschi is a top end prospect, every team in the NHL has 3-5 top end prospects. In which case we'll need to come up with a new term for the 15-20 top prospects in the league. Ultra-elite prospects?