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Originally Posted by GioforPM
It's fine to say "get lots of picks". But IMO a whole lot of people hear "first round pick" and think "stud player" without considering where the pick is.
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Exactly.
Some posters here think the Flames are foolish for not selling off anything that isn’t bolted down past 2024 (Lindholm, Hanifin, Tanev, Toffoli, Zadorov), for 1st first round picks. One guy seems to think we should be able to get 7 first round picks for this group of players.
First of all,
if they were to move some of these guys for picks they would be much wiser to do it at the draft, that way, you might actually get a team to give up a mid-first opposed to a late. Secondly, and I e raised this before, there are only so many first round picks available at any given time. Teams who might be willing to give up a first today, might not want to in June. For 2/3rds of the league, they’re not giving up their first short of something too good to pass up, or they wouldn’t trade it under any circumstances at all.