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Originally Posted by Jay Random
You can't protect a top-3 pick at all costs. If you protect it one year, it generally rolls over and becomes an unprotected pick the following year. GMs don't like to accept trades involving a pick that is protected more than once, because their careers might be over by the time their team finally receives it.
Look at the Hanifin trade. The 2025 1st was protected, but since the conditions were met, it becomes a 2026 1st – unprotected.
It takes two to tango. In the circumstances, when Treliving was trying to trade a pick that already had conditions on it, there was a limit to how much BS in the way of additional conditions the Habs were willing to accept. I think the trade probably reached that limit exactly, because I've never seen a more complicated one.
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It's amazing how many people see "lottery protected" and think a GM has lost a chance at a draft lottery pick. It's always only protected for one draft. And a lottery team in year one is pretty likely to be a lottery team in year two.