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Originally Posted by driveway
If they mortgage picks and prospects to go for it this year I will be so frigging angry.
The performance this year is an awesome bonus which bodes well for the future. We should trade exactly zero picks and not a single player younger than 27, doing so would be much, much more foolish than any of the attempts to make the playoffs with the 2009-2012 Flames.
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Meh, if we can add legit NHL players for 3rd round and later picks, I'd be perfectly happy with that. Guys like Hemsky and Meszaros were being traded for scratch-tickets last year.
If we see prices like that THIS season, id be perfectly happy adding some veteran talent for a throw-away draft pick, especially a defenceman (who's not displacing any rookies).
You're basically buying playoff experience for your young guys at the cost of a draft pick that has a less than 5% chance of ever becoming even a replacement-level player.
I'd do that.