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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Your characterization was that they have traded a ton of picks for the bottom of the roster
I think that’s inaccurate.
Most of the picks were used to acquire top of the roster guys including number one goalies. Didn’t work out but it isn’t like they went out and dealt a ton of picks for fourth liners
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I disagree with this. The only top of the roster guy was Hamilton as I tried to make very clear in my second post. Rest were middle and bottom. As for the picks used to acquire goalies, I would argue only one was a bonafide starter and that is a guy who would start on very, very few teams in this league.
But if you really want to argue semantics, the picks traded for Bollig, Lazar, Stone and Shore were all picks for 4th liners or 3rd pairing guys. That is a 2nd, 2 3rds, a 5th and a 7th given up IIRC. That is essentially trading one entire draft year sans your first. Feel free to argue the merits of it but I believe it is a poor approach.