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Originally Posted by Pickle Juice
What are the chances that we trade up to the top 5 in this years draft? I Have not been following the draft eligibles much this year so forgive me if I’m way out to lunch with this.
I feel like Chicago is a wild card to move out of the top 5? I would think as long as they have Kane and Toews they will try to keep their window to win as long as possible.
So would a deal involving
Brodie + Jankow + our 1st be enough to get the conversation started? Again I don’t know if people are considering this to be a strong draft year with generational talent.
I might be over valuing our players but if they were traded simply for picks I would imagine it to be something like this
Brodie = late first and a second
Jankow = early second
So It would be 2 firsts and 2 seconds which seems relativily close unless your Chicago and you think that the player in the top 5 will make more of an impact than both Brodie, Jankow and who ever they would get at 26.
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I don't think that package is enough to get the Flames into the top 10 (or even get the conversation started). I think you're valuing Brodie and Jankowski correctly, but Chicago's pick really does have a ton of value.
I don't think there's any chance the Flames trade up that high. Those types of rumors always end up being nothing for some reason. In this case, there aren't even rumors (yet).
I am confident the Flames will have a pretty good draft without trades. For the most part, they'll draft whichever player has the highest ceiling at the spot. And I'm fine with that.