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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I think it should be a blanket ban on trading away any high picks. Adding mid-tier players at the expense of quality draft capital is just impatience in my eyes, and it makes it significantly more difficult to acquire the quality of player the Flames actually need.
I could maybe be convinced that if someone on par with a Jack Eichel is on the market, then get a seat at the table. That's an organizational shifting trade. That's not what Pinto, that's not what any of these rumoured names are.
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It really depends on the trade.
Moving something like the Devils pick for a Pinto, Cozenz, Mercer type would be perfectly fine.
There should be no blanket rules against anything, that's where you get yourself into trouble. Every situation has to be assessed on its own.
I know it's not your preferred outcome but this team is always proving again that a bottom 5 finish is probably not in the cards. Worst case is probably that 7-12 range again I think.
They are going to have to be creative with how they fill this void at C. They have to hope they do have a chance to draft the top line guy at some point but a trade for a C shouldn't be something they avoid either.
And I think what we actually haven't talked about is what if the piece they'd be willing to move is actually something like Coronato but get a similar piece that is a C instead of a winger.