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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
You have to consider why teams that have a top 15 pick would do that.
It's unlikely. Which is why it doesn't happen much.
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It’s very rare and I would be surprised if it happened. My hope is that one of the teams that are desperate to make the playoffs this coming year (Ottawa/Buffalo/New Jersey/Detroit) would make a move like that. Those are teams that have been rebuilding for a while and are supposed to be making the playoffs consistently by now. Buffalo really does not need anything the flames have to offer so I don’t see them as a trade partner unless maybe they would be interested in a retained Coleman + Vancouver’s first round pick. Ottawa could definitely use Andersson and he is the flames’ most valuable potential trade piece (if they wanted to trade him)… but I just don’t see a team trading a top 5 pick for anyone except an established star player in the league.