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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Almost every bad team in the league trades players for picks at the deadline.
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Right. Let’s not make more of such moves than they deserve is my point. Treliving accumulated assets such as pucks and prospects and then he either used the picks (Andersson/Kykington/Valimkai/Dube) or spent them (Hamilton/Hanifin:Lindholm/Lazar). Picks used right now won’t be NHL ready for 3 years (because Calgary was never going to be a top 5 picker in any realistic scenario) so he had to keep the Gaudreau/Monahan/Gio window in mind as well.