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Originally Posted by New Era
Even though I put Joulevi as the top defenseman on my list that would be pretty hard to take. Drafting at a position where we are very deep just doesn't make sense. I also don't subscribe to the concept of drafting players so you can trade them to fill other gaps. That just doesn't work very well, as we have seen in trying to plug holes in our current situation. I'm not a Nylander fan but I would be happier if they took him over another defenseman. Hopefully the Flames move up or take one of Nylander or Brown. Another defenseman just seems like a bad investment when we need help in other areas more.
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I suppose the model is the Predators but I'm not sure that's a model you want to emulate unless the goal is simply to ice a competitive team. That team simply never had the forward depth to become a real cup contender. Maybe their recent trades have them moving in the right direction but it's not like they got a return for Suter as he left via UFA and they have been in perpetual mode of trying to find elite forwards. Also when you look at the return for Jones they would have been better off just drafting Monahan.