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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
If you are going to list picks moved out to complain about lost assets, at least include picks added in that time too to give a fair picture. We gave up a 7th for Shore, but also acquired a 7th getting rid of Lack. We traded a 4th for Fanta, but added a 4th trading Frolik. We traded a 3rd for Gus, but added a 3rd in the Neal/Lucic swap. We gave up a 2nd for Lazar, but the draft prior we added 2 seconds (and traded another in the Elliott deal). Treliving has also added more NCAA and European free agents than most GMs to help counter the loss of picks.
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Treliving has picked 6 fewer times than he would have had he not trades any picks since the 2015 draft (he did not really have the ability to trade 2014 picks). Including the 2014 draft he is down 7 picks compared to what the Flames started with. The breakdown from 2015-2019 is : two first round picks, one second round pick, three 3rd round picks, one fifth round pick. He is up one 4th rounder. Pretty hard to find enough NCAA free agents or European free agents to balance odd trading away 40 percent of your picks in the first 3 rounds. I guess we do have Hanifin (or Lindholm) to show for those picks that were traded.