I hate trading first round picks. Hate it. Ruins the draft and makes me queasy.
But if this solves the goaltending issue for the next say five years I guess I'd be on board with it (assuming Kuemper is open to extending in a year), as at least the pick is known unlike the Hamonic deal ... both in terms of where the team is drafting and pretty much exactly who they'd be looking at with the 19th pick.
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