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Originally Posted by gilligans_off
I can't remember the last time trading down has worked out in the Flames favor. Keep with what we have.
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I suppose it was 2007, when we traded down from 18 to get STL's 24th and 70th.
They picked Ian Cole, we got Backlund and John Negrin.
Though I suppose you could argue that the trade down part didn't really work as the extra asset was a bust. We could have just picked Backs at 18 and had the same result.
We also traded down in 2009 from 20 to get NJ's 23rd and 84th.
NJ picked Josefson and we got the infamous Tim Erixon, later in the day we used the 84th pick to trade up and pick Ryan Howse.
I suppose Erixon is a better NHL asset than Josefson, and we did flip him for more assets...so I suppose that technically worked out too.