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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
All this talk about bleeding picks.
Imagine a draft where we take Daniel Vlader and Nikita Zadorov in the 3rd round, and Tyler Pitlick in the 4th round. That's a home run of a draft. That's better than any later round success in any draft since Gaudreau and Brossoit in 2011.
More picks are good. Acquiring extra picks for outgoing players is great - do it as much as possible. But the reason you acquire picks is that it gives you more chances to acquire players that help the team. Well, the Flames turned 2 3rds and a 4th into 2 players that will help the team and a young goalie that has a really good chance of helping the team.
Sounds like a win IMO. But I know some fans think draft day is more important than the actual team on the ice.
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Some fans think free agency day is more important than the team on the ice? The question is whether you made good use of your picks. There were lots of goalies available at no acquisition cost so time will tell if this was a good deal.
Trading away picks is accepted practice and a reasonable part of an approach to building a team, but you give away upside when you do it.
As long as Treliving has been GM, this club has never had the depth in the organization to trade players for picks in the off-season. That’s unfortunate and not all his fault but a reality. The team has been bad enough some years that players could be dealt away at the deadline for picks but that hasn’t turned into enough organizational depth to keep a solid pipeline of players coming in. Which is why Flames are so reliant on dealing picks for players and signing UFA’s in the off-season. Hopefully the approach works better this year than in the past.