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Originally Posted by keenan87
That is what personally irks me when people overvalue draft picks too much. There are lots of people annoyed with the Flames not having too many picks in the next few years. I feel like the Flames are in win mode and can afford to trade picks.
We have a super young core that is a few pieces away. It would be different if the core was in the later stages of their career. I am okay with trading picks for proven guys at this time. Would rather have a guy like Pacioretty than the majority of Flames first round picks selected after Top 10.
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When it comes to first round picks and the Flames anything outside of the lottery has been for the most part been a graveyard so the Hamonic trade for instance isn't so bad if the Flames pick ends up in the area of 20-30 seeing this team usually misses badly on those picks. That said regardless of how good your team is if you trade away too many picks it will come back to bite you in the end as you need continuous cycles of young talent displacing higher paid veteran players.