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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
It is really bizarre seeing the most vocal person on this site about/against trading picks, suddenly doing a complete 180 and saying we need to start going the other way. I think your disconnect comes down to not considering that picks pay dividends 4 years out, not now. And Treliving nailed it IMO.
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No, I am being consistent.
You accumulate picks when you are bad and spend picks when you are good, and once your window to compete is over you trade good players for an abundance of picks and start over.
Honestly, when Gaudreau's contract is over I don't want the flames to re-sign him. I don't want to be the equiavlent of the ducks or what was the canucks or the Country Club flames years. I want the team to win now while they are good and tear down when they are bad.
If there is a 6'4 point producing centre out there to be had, I want him. If there is a hard nosed goal scoring winger out there to be had, I want them.
Evander Kane was moved last year for a conditional 1st and a conditional 4th. If that deal is out there the flames would be idiots not to pull the trigger with the roster in the shape it's in this year, not holding on so they can draft a guy at #22 overall who doesn't play his first game until Giordano's jersey gets added to forever a flame.
If there was any year to be pulling the trigger on a high priced pending UFA it is when the team is paying Tkachuk peanuts. Next year, this team doesn't have that flexibility anymore, and you're talking new contracts for Brodie and Hamonic on top of it.
This is the year.