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Originally Posted by Vinny01
I don’t agree that trading picks for a young proven talent is the wrong move. It was the perfect move for a team that had just gone on a 2 round run.
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Who said
wrong? The trade was great, even if they knew Barzal would drop and would have taken him, it's still a risk when drafting 18 year olds that Hamilton didn't have as a young established better than solid blueliner. In a vacuum it's a trade you make 10 out of 10 times.
But moving a 1st and 2 2nds for an established player because the team surprised and got to the second round and now you want to try and compete by trading away futures for established players, is that not the opposite of a "rebuild" period? If you're trading futures to compete now, that's the end of the rebuild, if you're trading players for futures to (hopefully) compete with later, that's a rebuild. No?