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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Again, if Elliott had played to his historical stats, it would have been a decent trade. Or if Brad had gone for a different goalie.
The only thing I’m arguing against is the auto “trading picks = bad”. It’s all dependent on the return.
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No it would not, because nobody trades high picks, multiple times, when your team finishes 26th, 15th, 20th in the league. I doubt we will ever see a GM trade that many picks in that short of a time frame for a team that was that far away from being elite. It is a rebuild strategy that awful teams, like the Flames were from 16-18 have never used before. It got us from being a bottom ten team in the league up to a 5-12 team in the league for two years, but now that that has burned out likely back down to the bottom ten for awhile as we hopefully start accumulating talent again.