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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
I never said anything about excuses, but it's a terrible narrow minded take.
Since 2014 when Tre took over with the trades involving 1st and 2nd round picks, we are down 2 firsts (3 years apart btw) and and even on second round picks and trades involving them have turned into Lindholm and Hanifin. That is a net gain no matter how you want to twist it.
And he has only traded 2 first rounders in 6 drafts, so he is at the 1 in 3 you suggest is acceptable.
Treliving has also supplemented his drafts by actually getting top ranked European and NCAA free agents to sign here. Some haven't worked out, but it's what way with draft picks too.
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I look at the 2 Hamilton trades like this as well
15th pick out for Hamilton
5th pick in the same draft as part of the Hamilton return
Since the rebuild started this team has had the following 1st round picks as part of the org
2013 - 5th Lindholm, 6th Monahan, 17th Lazar, 19th Rychel, 22nd Poirier 24th Shinkaruk, 28th Klimchuk
2014- 4th Bennett
2015- 5th Hanifin
2016- 6th Tkachuk
2017- 17th Valimaki
2018- N/A
2019- 26th Pelletier
2020- 19th/TBD
The team has 5 Players picked in the top 6 since they moved on from Iginla.