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Originally Posted by keenan87
I have 0 issues with trading a first round pick for another player who is young and can contribute on the team. I would be against trading a first round pick for any player who is over 25.
Honestly, it's all hypothetical but I would have definitely given up a first round pick for Max Domi last year. It's a lot better to have a player who is proven or proving themselves than hoping for some magic beans (Poirier, Klimchuk, Nemisz, Baertschi, Erixon,Irving, Pelech, Chucko)..
I am just not high on a team's draft picks when they have done absolutely nothing special with their top round picks in a long time aside from the Top 10 picks when the decision was basically made for them. Backlund and Jankowski are the only 2 players in the past 20 years who were first round picks outside of the Top 10 and have done relatively well (jury still out on Jankowski)
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Valimaki was selected #16.