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Originally Posted by FanIn80
If you're lucky enough to draft a Matthew Tkachuk, you don't turn around and trade him for another draft pick. That's like winning a million dollars on a horse race, and then putting that million dollars right back onto another horse in the next race.
Who's available this year at #2? Logan Cooley? Juraj Slafkovsky? We're gonna trade Tkachuk for one of those two? I'm not even sure I'd trade him for Shane Wright.
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The Flames just traded away a bunch of picks and have an incredibly tough time finding cap space to keep Tkachuk, Gaudreau, Mangiapane. Adding the 2nd pick (+ by the way) would help afford them the ability to keep Johnny and Mangiapane long term while adding a top prospect to the organization. It really only truly intrigues me if Wright is available at that pick.
Flames are trading Tkachuk only if there is no path to a long term deal.