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Originally Posted by Bingo
Aren't you describing every GM?
You expend picks when you are competing, and acquire picks when you are falling.
The issue is the judgement of when you should go all in, and as I've said about 2 dozen times, he was wrong to bet on Gaudreau and Monahan as 2/3 of a top line.
A fairly strong majority of people on this site seemed to feel the same way at the time however.
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I don't see quite that way. It's not all in or all out. Every off season you see competitive teams move out players for picks as part of their broader strategy.
This off season so far Boston, Washington, Florida, Carolina, Columbus, NYR, Dallas, Colorado have all made trades where players went out and picks came back. Last off season, Vegas, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Florida, Carolina, St. louis, Toronto were those teams.
Trading players for picks doesn't have to mean you're giving up. It's an arrow in your quiver for managing your assets and accumulating wealth.
It seems the Flames are always chasing so they feel they can't afford to lose anything form their roster.