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Originally Posted by flame^thrower
I disagree, I think Treliving is doing a great job. Some people seem to want to stay in a mode where we are on the verge and keeping all our picks. I really don't think the future has been hurt in any way. If need be we will have the assets to recoup picks. This rebuild is pretty much over and we are turning the corner. If those picks are "high" picks then we are failing. I don't think they will be high picks at all ... late round I am hoping.
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To "win now", you preferably want guys on ELC's drastically overperforming their contracts. Guys like Guentzel for example. Unless you're rebuilding, you don't need super high draft picks to find new core players, but you still need enough draft picks to give yourself a decent chance to find good support players on the cheap.
That's why IMO in the cap world, trading away draft picks and trying to win it all don't go together very well.
I mean sure, Hamonic might have a good value contract, but if that contract comes at the price of having one less guy on an ELC somewhere in the lineup, we'll likely just waste that cap advantage on a more expensive veteran.
Draft picks are also flexibility if you need to make a trade.
However, it is what it is now. Some of our current prospects better work out.