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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Great post.
It illustrates the time lag between drafting and organizational depth, and the core cycles a team runs through. Drafting a couple of star players can hold you in contention for 10 years, as was the case with Couture and Pavelski, and Marleau and Vlasic before that.
I think it also illustrates how a single player can impact both a draft and a team. Tkachuk IMO is a superstar player, and his 174 career points represent more than half of the total point output from those draft years. Where would this team be without him, even with max potential for valimaki, andersson etc?
I will add though that this doesn't include the prospects shipped out for Karlsson and Hoffman. While they may not have played a game, they were integral organizational assets.
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Kind of like the picks that were shipped out to acquire Hamonic or Hamilton, which resulted in Lindholm and Hanifin?
When SJ trades picks for assets it's a good thing? (as opposed to your view on the Flames doing it?)