[bigrangy]

If the pick doesn't win the lottery, it was a fair trade. The players that will be available at 12 (barring fallers) are not that good this year. Farabee/Kotkaniemi/Ty Smith types + some seconds are fair prices to pay for top 4 defensemen.

It's not a huge win of a trade like you want it to be but it's just fair.

If the pick wins the lotto, even #3, it's worse than Hall/Larsson, Weber/Subban, Forsberg/Erat.

It'll be the type of trade that damages the team's psyche more than it actually hurts them on the ice (the damage is already done, the pick is gone, but it's going to hurt a lot more if Svechnikov is an Islander because of it)

I am fully expecting the lottery to be

1 Oilers
2 Flames
3 Hawks

though