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Originally Posted by polak
Have you looked up the Heats stats? Poirier and Klimchuck are trending more towards career AHL'ers than the .5 PPG NHL player that Drouin already is. They still have value but you will need to throw in a useful NHL'er on a good contract like Mikael Backlund to make a deal.
What do you expect to get him for? Yzerman isn't actively trying to make his team worse.
Our 1st better be completely off the table. We could easily have a top 10, maybe even top 5 pick at this point.
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I'm not saying our 1st for Drouin is the route I would like the Flames to take. But a few things I take issue with in this post..
1) AHL career does not reflect an NHL career. For better or worse.
2) Poirier has shown he can compete. So has Klimchuk.
3) you're missing my point completely..
If you have a player that is that highly regarded, has a couple years of development already but is still finding his way and may need a change of scenery to make it all come together, do you not take that chance with your 1st if that's what it takes?
Furthermore, who do you like in the upcoming draft between lets say 7-14 who you think is better now than Drouin.
For the record, I'm not necessarily a Drouin fan. I've seen him play live in junior and his game isn't quite the same when playing against men.
That 1st isn't necessarily more valuable than 2 guys developing in the AHL already who have a lot of upside.
Kind of a "devil you know" situation