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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
The Flames likely need both a 1 and 2c long term
If you can love your pick this year, in a bad draft, for a young player the quality of Rossi you at least think about it
The chances they get a player that good at 18 is slim
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Agreed.
If Rossi was a recently drafted prospect and you knew he would become a 60 point center by the age of 23 and several more years or prime, he'd pretty easily be the best forward prospect in the Flames cabinet at the moment and likely better than anything you could hope to get at 18th OA. 60 point centers are just not typically available at that point in the draft.
I get that if the issue is not wanting a player that just keeps us in the mushy middle and the hope is to bottom out and draft a center in the top 10 or top 5 of next year's draft. That would make sense. But expecting that to happen with the picks we have right now is setting one's self up for disappointment.
I would personally prefer to bottom out and get some really high picks, but I don't think that is going to happen, therefore you might as well try getting top 10 drafted young talent through trades if possible. May Rossi isn't that guy, but if all it costs is the 18th OA, I'd like to find out.