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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Trading Tkachuk straight up for a 2nd overall in what looks like a pretty mediocre draft is waaaay to risky.
Imagine trading your 100+ shift disturbing, prime aged winger for a future Sam Bennett, Michael Dal Colle, Dylan Strome, Jonathan Drouin etc...
Not a high enough percentage of top picks ever become as good as Tkachuk is for the Flames to take gamble like that.
It's a moot point anyways. If the player projected to be taken 2nd overall was good enough, or sure enough of a thing to be traded for Tkachuk there is no way the team holding that pick would entertain the trade to begin with. They'd just take the player IMO
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The dynamics in play here are:
- New Jersey wanting to open the Hughes window
- Their strength up the middle such that they don't need another centre
- The fact that what they do need is a premium winger. And can parlay their draft capital.
So for the most part what you state is usually true, but there may be unique elements in play here that open up an opportunity for this type of deal.