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Originally Posted by Five-hole
I dunno. Do you give up Jankowski, Baertschi, Poirier and Klimchuk for Johansen? I might, depending on what my team was like. I don't think the Flames should given prospect depth is basically the only thing we have going on right now, but a 35-35-70 big center at his age is a tough asset to come by.
If you're a team looking to pick in the 20-30 range for the next four years I think you take a long look at it. Especially given that, if you're the GM, by the time the lack of first rounders may actually bite you in the ass, you've probably moved on to another team.
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Any team that can afford to part with the picks likely doesn't have the cap room to add another 7M player. Any offer lower than 7 is likely matched by Columbus anyway, since they're already offering 6/$36, and the most any other team can do is extend that by a year.
So all an offer sheet does is alienate the management of Columbus, and when a team actually needs a piece from the Jackets, they can go pound sand.
I'd have to look long and hard at those four guys for Johansen if I'm the Flames. I think they're all going to be terrific players though, and I don't really think now is the time to sacrifice all your prospect depth. That day will come, regardless. If it happens to be used on Ryan Johansen so be it, but I'd like him to have proven more first.