Complete freaking lunacy.
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2003 - #3, #55 for #1, #73 (up two spots)
2004 - #8, #59 for #4 (up four spots)
2005 - #12, #49, #207 for #8 (up four spots)
2007 - #13, #44, future 3rd rounder (#87) for #9 (up four spots)
2008 - #7, #68, future 2nd (#37) for #5 (up two spots)
2008 - #9, #40 for #7 (up two spots)
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Those are standard move up trades. No GM is going to give up actual quality NHL players to move up 3 spots in a draft.
If it costs more than that a trade won't happen, nor should it. It's a completely stupid overpayment.
Every year leading up to the draft it's the same BS lol. People fall in love with certain prospects that look to be out of reach and start throwing out ridiculous overpayment proposals because they want to move up.
In 2013 it was rumored that Feaster offered #6, #22 and #28 for #1 from the Avs. They turned it down. That was a fair deal, but they'd rather hang onto #1 and pick Mackinnon. Completely understandable. I bet some goof ball here would have offered all that plus Brodie/Backlund or something idiotic like that. Imagine right now the Avs having Brodie or Backlund plus Klimchuk and Poirier (if that's who the Avs picked) and Monahan who is arguably just as good or better than Mackinnon is anyways.
Again, it doesn't/shouldn't cost that much to move up a few spots in the draft. If they ask for a package like the OP's you don't make the deal.