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Originally Posted by Bingo
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.
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So the forward equivalent of Hamonic might be Mike Hoffman. He is coming of a lesser year after some top-3 years. He is got 2 years left at a 5.2 M cap hit.
If Ottawa were to retain 1.4M of his cap he would have the same cap hit and contract length as Hamonic.
So somehow because the Flames are able to draft pretty well they should give up the same package for him as they gave up for Hamonic?
Next years 1st and 2 2nds?
Or Valimaki and pick 2 of past 2nd round picks that have not made it to the NHL level - Fox, Dube, Parsons, Kylington and Andersen.
If this seems to be an invalid straw man argument then please provide some rationale why a good drafting team ( that is at best a bubble team) makes trading away high draft choices for an above average NHL player in peak years a good thing.
PS So the Flames who were a lot closer to 1 for 7 at the time made a mistake when trading for Hamilton?