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Originally Posted by Vinny01
The Nets analogy is pretty terrible. Offer sheets are for young players who can be part of a team for the long term. Pettersson is 22, Hughes is 21 those could be core pieces for a long time.
The Nets traded a ton of futures and pick swaps to get players well past their prime with only 1-2 years left in the league. It would be like the Flames spending a boatload of futures on Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci. 2 great players part of a top team but clearly near the end of their careers.
On a side note I wonder if pick swaps will ever catch on in the NHL like they have in the NBA. I believe the CBA in basketball limits the amount of consecutive 1st round picks a team can trade so a popular think these days is giving the team swap rights for their pick. For instance say the Flames and Jackets did an Anderson for Monahan and pick swap in 21. Flames would then obviously take the option of swapping 12th overall for 5th overall but if the Flames finished worse they would not be obligated to make the swap
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The Nets analogy is meant to highlight how hamstrung the franchise was without picks while the experiment did not go as well as expected, not the age of the players in question.
Acquiring a 22 year old elite player for 4x 1st's, with I would say equal risk of this team being a lottery contender vs a playoff team, is foolhardy. Especially with the status of our prospect pipeline. It would be ludicrous asset management.