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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Eichel just wanted an artificial disk replacement. The Buffalo was stupid and started beefing with him, no other injury concerns. Calgary was fine with it that they made a huge offer.
That tells you they realized they knew they couldn't win without that premier #1C.
We need to use our picks to make our picks. We can gather more picks in later years, and once we have a core built use our picks for trades.
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I think if Conroy is actually thinking about trading for Pettersson it somewhat comes down to how good he thinks his current prospects and players under 25 are in the system along with what he might get for the picks. I think he could put together a pretty good package for Pettersson without including picks, in part because I don’t think that the Canucks want picks and in part because he has some decent assets to trade. But right now in the organization imo he has the following depth for players 24 yrs of age or younger by position (depth that I think could make an impact at the NHL level or already are)
Defence
Bahl
Parekh
Hunter
Mews
Maybe solovyov
Maybe Morin
Maybe Poirier
Maybe Grushnikov
Wingers
Honzek
Coronato
Pelletier
Suniev
Battaglia
Basha
Stromgren
Gridin
Centers
Zary (if he is a center)
Keirns
Considering Bahl, Coronato and Pelletier already look like they are NHL players he probably needs 2 dmen to turn out and 2 more wingers to turn out and he has at least his d-core more or less set and his top 9 wingers (with Huberdeau and Sharangovich being the other wingers). Sometime in the rebuild, probably 2027 and beyond he will need 3 centers. It will be pretty tough for him to turn picks at that point in time for multiple centers considering how often they become available. I hope Conroy is putting his best efforts into Pettersson just given the ability of the player and how often players like that become available.