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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The Flames are 7 for 7 for the last picks they have made in the 1st three rounds. My expectation that this management team would pick a viable top-6/ top-4 player with the 12th overall pick.
Similarly the scouting/management team in 2015 that picked Anderssen at #53 and Kylington at #60 would have picked Barzal or Connor or Boesser or Konecny or Rosolvic or Beauvillier at #15. who were all available and all look to be on the top-6 track if not already there.
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Being 7 for 7 (too early to deem that anyway) is the exact reason you can move a first round pick for an established player.
Teams that go 1 for 7 had better not move first round picks.
Their recent success makes the Hamonic deal make more sense, not less.