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Originally Posted by #-3
If you go the other way and pick a bunch of players then only sign 1/2 of them you end up with Stoll or St Louis situations, where we had the rights to perfectly good players but just tossed them away, then you would really have something to complain about.
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Having more picks, even if you can't sign them all, gives you a better shot at good players. The Flames screwed up that advantage, but it is an advantage.
Having said that, you make a pretty good case for trading up with excess picks, if we're getting 12 picks per year.
