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Originally Posted by saillias
Put me in the camp of a 2026 first is too far removed from the present needs of the team to be serious. So you're making trades in 2024 and the GM in 2029 maybe benefits with a player?
And playing some kind of stock market prediction game about your trade partner being bad that far in the future is just pointless gambling too.
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The draft as a whole is essentially gambling. You can better your odds through scouting and volume of picks. But there are no guarantees.
Just look back through the Flames drafts. How many first rounders never turned into anything. How many fourth rounders did ect.