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Originally Posted by RoughRiderRowdy
This is kind of a weird question, but i want your guys' opinion. So lets say we draft one of the D men at 6. And he progresses nicely in 2 years. A) whos your best guess as who we could trade on the back end, and B) who would you like to acquire?
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Wouldn't trade anyone until 1-6 are filled with out own talent and we have additional guys coming along in the pool also.
So if say we take Sergachev and he pans out and 2/3 of Kylington/Andersson/Hickey turn out, the Flames will have a full group 1-6. Then it would matter if the Flames add any additional guys.
The younger guys will be cheap options for a while. If they all pan out, then you can re-evaluate once Brodie/Hamilton/Gio's contracts are close to being up.
Until then, why not rock out with that cast 1-6 and make the other teams have to deal with it. That's what Nashville did. Now they have a couple of guys pushing for spots in addition to 1-6, that's why they were able to move Jones. Bitetto came in and effectively took the role that Ekholm was doing as he was shifted up into Jones' role.