Thinking about the Sens trading 3 and 5 for 1 and oookong at some recent drafts it makes for an interesting discussion.
2010- Hall for Gudbranson and Niederitter. Hall all day
2011- Nuge for Huberdeau and Strome. Huberdeau is the best player and the 3 picks after Strome we’re Zibenijad, Schiefele, Couturier and alll are way better than Nuge
2012- Yakupov for Galchenyuk and Rielly. No explanation needed
2013- MacKinnon for Drouin and Lindholm. Still take Nate but what if it was Jones and Lindholm/Monahan? Likely still stick with MacKinnon
2014- Ekblad for Draisaitl and Dal Colle. Draisaitl is the best player
2015- McDavid for Strome and Hanifin. No doubt McDavid
2016- Matthews for Dubois and Juolevi. Put Tkachuk in there with Dubois and I take them over Matthews
2017- Hischier for Heiskenan and Petterson easily take the duo
2018- Dahlin for Kotkaniemi and Hayton. Take Dahlin
2019- Hughes for Dach and Turcotte. Too soon to say
When there is a consensus pick that is a tier above the rest it seems like the right call to take the player but in many cases if you nail picks 3 and 5 of a draft you will end up with a better situation.
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