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Originally Posted by Itse
There's also the inherent problem in trading picks for players: in the long term you're going to get players that are as good as the pick is worth on average, while half the teams in the league will inevitably draft better than average.
If you have a below average team to begin with, it's easy to improve to an average team by trading picks, but every draft pick you don't make will also make it that much more likely that you will never catch up to teams that drafted better than average or were better to begin with.
And that's exactly where we are now: A below average team making trades to become an average team, so we can squeeze into the playoffs and then hope Darryl Sutter is magic.
(I don't mind this particular trade though.)
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Way too simplistic of a view - and molded to fit a narrative.
3rd and 4th round picks produce a player in 4 or 5 years (if at all). It is almost impossible to predict where any franchise will be in 4 or 5 years. It s also impossible to predict how many draft picks they will acquire or trade away over that time.
In this case, the Flames traded a 3rd round pick next year (potential player in 2025 or 2026) for a 3rd round pick in 2015 who is on the verge of becoming an NHLer this year.
Trying to paint a negative slant on that is a pure exercise in blind bias.
Was trading a pick for Kipper part of the constant cycle of the Flames trying to become mediocre?