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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
Everyone knows that when you use a second pick the chances of that second round pick turning into something useful is a long shot.
Everyone should also know that if you trade that second round pick for a player you can usually get a player that is way more useful than what that second round pick would have become.
Trading a second round pick for a 4th liner is NOT a good use of a second rounder because every fool knows you can get more than that in a trade.
For example you can get a Patrick Eaves level player by trading a second rounder and this is the sort of return level a GM should be looking for when he trades a second rounder.
Obviously when Treveling trades a second round pick for Lazar, he is betting that Curtis will develop into something in that mold. If that happens Brad wins the trade.
If Lazar fails to develop into that level of player then Brad loses the Trade because he could have traded his second rounder for that level of player in the first place.
Comparing the return of a second rounder in trade to the odds of a second rounder panning out from the draft is dumb because we know that second rounders routinely fetch more value in trade than what they would produce in the draft.
I'm a little shocked that this needs so much explanation.
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You originally said he needed to be a 20 goal scorer for the Flames to win the trade.
The facts proved you wrong.
Now you're moving the goalposts.
Your argument needs so much explanation because you don't actually have one.