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Originally Posted by Serapth
More to the point, why would it matter if we traded with a basement dweller? That's just stupid frankly.
If you pull a player from a top 5 team, you're more apt to find a player with artificially inflated numbers due to the quality of players they've played with. When it comes to a young player, being from a bottom dweller can be considered a good thing. Generally that means a higher level draft pick, and a higher potential runway for the player acquired, due to now player with other higher skilled players.
In short, being good on a bad team, especially while young, is basically better than being good on a good team.
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Excellent point. Listening to Don Waddell discuss the trade, clearly Carolina is making a trade to make a trade, change for the sake of change.
This is exactly who you want to trade with.
Can you imagine offering the 15th pick & 2 seconds to move up to #5 to pick Hanifin 3 years ago?
The draft needs to be viewed as what it is, the ability to sign restricted free agent to a salary commensurate with their skills, abilities and experience.
It is flash and show for the future, not the present.
Hanifin is progressing at the typical rate of a dman. He’s 21. With 3 years and over 200 games of NHL experience. If someone wants to argue that Werenski or Pronorov have passed him, fine, it’s been 3 years in an incredibly strong draft.
To me that’s more like arguing over preference of alcohol, you may not be wrong, but the story isn’t finished either. Team building is as much an art as a science in the short and long term.
Hanifin is at the sane point in his career as Hamilton was 3 years ago, only he’s younger and will have the same coach for his 4th season hopefully mitigating difficulties with transition to a new team.