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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
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?)
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No, they picked players with those picks and those players had higher value than the picks would've themselves.
Rudolf Balcers has more value than a 5th round pick.
Chris Tierney had more value than a 2nd round pick.
Dylan DeMelo had more value than a 6th round pick.
From where the team was at and what they needed, the Lindholm/Hamilton trade is a home run for Calgary but it was Adam Fox, the extremely valuable prospect, that put that deal over the top.
Adam Fox had more value than a pick from the round he was drafted in.
Also, as has been explained to you numerous times by now, I have no problem with the Flames trading picks and for the last year have explicitly endorsed trading a LOT of high value picks to round out the competitive window.
What I don't think is an effective strategy is trading a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th round pick in a 2 year period for 3 players no longer with the organization, one of whom carries a substantial buyout penalty.
I'd much rather trade for Erik Karlsson than Curtis Lazar.