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Originally Posted by Jay Random
The nice thing about that is that often in the 2nd round, you get teams eyeing each other, both wanting to draft a particular player and getting their testosterone in a wad lest the other guy get him first. Nearly every year, somebody overpays to move up and snag a particular player (who often busts anyway).
If the opportunity is there, this could be one of those years where the Flames trade down within the 2nd round and pick up an extra 3rd or 4th. Or trade their 2nd outright for multiple picks.
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That is basically how I'm looking at it. My assessment is based on my opinion, but it's pretty good (Elite Status is questionable)
I have always felt the most overrated statement is the worst spot to be in is a team that just misses the playoffs. IMO it's worse to be a terrible team that misses out on a top 5 pick.
I feel like once you get past the 1st, the 2nd is very overrated and isn't really providing more star players the any other round. You need to draft well past the 1st and maybe you are getting more 3rd and 4th liners from the 2nd, but I just feel that is overrated as a good GM should be able to fill his 3rd and 4th line and bottom d pairing to really worry about the value of drafting those types of players.