it's an arms race. Just takes a few dominos for the market to become more fluid. All it takes is a team like the lightening who may choose to go all in this year, with some big time question marks coming in the offseason, and grab a big gun like a staal, laad, etc.
You'd have to think a team poised to make some noise like the caps would be willing to part with non-roster assets to bolster their line up if needed.
Depth dmen with certain traits that a guy like russel brings i think are worth a 2nd round pick for a team that's going to be picking late in the round anyways.
i think it's easy to say nobody wants to trade 1st/2nd round picks anymore, but until the first few dominos fall, i think it's difficult to say what the market will be like.
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