The argument is a good one but isn't the whole point of accumulating picks and best player available is that you can use it to address a shortcoming? I think treliving did a masterful job in that regard.
If we draft another forward when he's ready a guy that should be playing top 6 probably won't excel being a checker. Then you have glaring weakness in the backend.
The picks are great to have but we already have legit top tier forwards, what we lacked was another defenseman who could log 22 plus minutes. It's not like we traded for mike green we just got a franchise player who after putting up 42 points at age 21 has his prime years ahead of him. Not only that we still picked twice in the 2nd round and potentially landed two impact players.
If you watched the Anaheim series we needed another game breaker on the back end we needed size and speed and Hamilton gives us that. We are now a goalie and top 6 forward away from being in the hunt of winning the Stanley cup next season.
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