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Originally Posted by Poe969
No. Take Matthews and move on. The team has never drafted first overall, you make the pick and you celebrate it as the building block needed to move forwards...not the building block needed to get the next first overall like those no good oilers.
Matthews is tr best player available, you take the best player available.
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What happens if you don't believe Matthews is the BPA? Believe it or not, not everyone's draft list looks like Bob McKenzie's or Central Scouting's. This is one of things that the Internet blogosphere echo-chamber has established; the belief that there is some master list that all teams draft from. This isn't the case. There is a great deal of variation in lists. It isn't as bad as baseball or football, but the variation is enough that a clear consensus in a close draft year like this one is probably unlikely.
Also, a move like the one suggested is not out of the realm of possibilities. Depending on what the Flames wanted in return the Coyotes could easily address that need and make it worth while to trade away the first pick. Seriously, if you were given the opportunity to have Matthews or have Laine and your pick of one or two players from the Coyotes prospect pool, you take Laine and the player(s). You talk about building blocks but ignore the obvious of grabbing two major building blocks at positions of weakness over one at a position of strength. I'll take a good distribution of quality players through out the lineup than a bunch of assets at the same position. That is how you build a winner.