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Originally Posted by Poe969
Both teams are painted in a corner. The sabres need to make Eichel happy and compete now, Johnny would accomplish both.
The sens are painted in a corner because....well Dorion just doesn't seem to know what he's doing right now. They have a ton of picks and they need some kind of star power to become relevant.
So not so much nice but both teams are in a position to have to do something.
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...or they could not be the typical, rushed, unsuccessful Canadian franchise and be patient and build through the draft. These 3rd and 5th picks are franchise cornerstones for them.
The other thing to discuss is the fact that top 5 picks simply don’t get traded. The highest picks in recent history to get moved are the 2013 9th OA pick (NJD/VAN, 9th for Schneider), the 2017th 7th OA pick (ARZ/NYR DeAngelo and 7th for Stepan/Raanta), 2012 8th OA (CAR/PIT Staal for Sutter, 8th, Dumoulin), in all of those deals the team sending the picks got hosed - which shows why we don’t see those type of trades made often.
If we were to look at these and gauge what Johnny would be worth in a deal with Buffalo:
To CGY: 8th overall+Cozens or Reinhart
To BUF: Gaudreau
Is actually right around where “market value” would be.