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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
NSH didn't have a problem moving Seth Jones when they were overloaded at defense.
The best player will be the best asset.
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NSH was extraordinarily fortunate that there was another team shopping an elite young asset at exactly the same time. That deal astonished the hockey world as a pure hockey trade, something vanishingly rare in the NHL today.
What happens if Columbus doesn't have a disgruntled young number one centre who wants out? Then NSH shops Jones around for a year or so, looking at offers along the lines of a mid first-round pick, a decent prospect, and a warm body. Extremely unlikely they end up getting fair value for Jones.
People are overlooking how difficult it is to make hockey trades in today's NHL. The whole notion of BPA is based on the idea that you can always exchange a prospect or young player for something of equal value. That's a mistaken assumption.
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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Can you think of a single instance in which a team erred by taking the BPA? I sure can't.
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Yakupov.