Unless there's someone who a team is particularly targeting, the value of 2nd rounders seems to have increased to a point where it seems less likely that a team will give one up just to move up a dozen or so spots to the bottom end of round 1. The past few years there have been plenty of plausible 20-30 picks who end up going 30-40. If I'm the Sens there is no way in hell I'm giving up the 44th pick to move up 6 spots. The Hurricanes seems like even more of a pipe dream, unless it's 36 and 59 for 26. Obviously this changes if the deal isn't just for picks, though.
If someone like Broberg or Kaliyev somehow drops into the 20s I could see it happening, but in that case, the Flames should just take that player.
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