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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
No agenda here, because I liked the ultimate outcome of the trade but I'm not sure this is really a fair argument here.
With that 15th pick, Barzal would have been available and looking like the obvious choice.
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Hmm...
I've maybe been the most vocal critic of the draft pick deficit spending but I feel as though the Lindholm/hanifin acquisition wiped most or all of that out, and the factor for me is cost.
You always want good players, having too many is a great problem, but when you look at what tkachuk is doing this year and then extrapolate that out to having another player doing similarly, you start to be able to forecast problems pretty quickly.
I think I'd probably prefer Lindholm at 4.9 to barzal at 7 or 8, especially when I consider the age and contract status of the existing group.
That Hamilton trade is such a
grand slam walkoff home run Walk Off Grand Slam, I think it more or less has nullified that deficit spending. The only real way not having made those picks hurts now is not having a collection of secondary prospects the team could use to trade.