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Originally Posted by activeStick
Yup. The days of GMs easily giving up 1sts in trades for 28+ year old players are gone and will be quite rare moving forward with teams understanding how critical high value ELC players are to a team's success if they want to also have high contract stars on their team.
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I think teams will still rather give up 1st round picks rather than players like Stankoven etc. as players who are closer to producing at the NHL level are especially valuable.
Most later first round picks are years from producing, if ever.