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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Yes you can just pick them up, it's called the entry draft. And yes you can just pick them up, we just traded a tweener guy for us for a guy who has the potential to be a top two line player. And yes you can just pick them up, it's called trading your UFAs at the deadline for more picks/prospects.
At some point you've accumulated so many young players and picks that you can't have them all make the NHL so you trade them for the pieces you need. Not sure we're quite at that point yet.
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Ok, so the Flames are currently 26th, they'll likely get an impact player with thier first pick but the rest are far from guaranteed. We traded a guy who was a tweener for a guy with no real NHL experience but potential. The players we'll get for trading our UFA's likely won't be impact players and will likely be picks and like I said, they're far from guaranteed. So doing things that way has got us 1 impact player because they drafted high and a bunch of maybes. A rebuild like that is going to take so long that by the time your picks and prospects are good, you're current young players aren't as good.
You won't improve your team that much or that fast doing things that way. Teams aren't going to gift you really good players because they like you, they're going to want good players back.
If the Flames were forced to trade Brodie, what would you want in return? Now compare that to what you're willing to give up for a good young player. It shouldn't really match up otherwise you're giving Brodie away for nothing or you're over valuing the Flames players.