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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Oilers fans, reporters and fan sites all make the bad assumption that you can trade for a young, top 3 defenseman. There may be none of them available this summer. Unless they are willing to part with Draisaitl+ and overpay for one.
Hamilton being available was a rare occurrence that shouldn't and doesn't happen very often. No team is lining up to trade young, top 3 d-men.
I'm hoping they can't find one and decide they have to draft one.
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This is all true, BUT, 5 young top 3 Dmen have been traded or available in the last calendar year, and the oilers being the team with the most need in the league by a long shot got 0 of them.
It is a bad combo for that team of thinking certain players hold trade value and mediocre to poor management.