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Originally Posted by ComixZone
San Jose as an example holds Dallas’ 1st this year (30th), their own 2nd (33rd), and Edmonton’s 1st next year.
I’d be pretty excited to see Dallas’ 1st or SJ’s 2nd + Edmonton’s 1st in 2026. I think that’d be fine value.
Having three 1st rounders in 2026 is a good spot to be in.
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For Andersson, I would be disappointed with those picks. Once Ekblad is off of the board, Andersson is the best D available this summer and next.
One might argue that Carlson is better but with him being 7 years older than Andersson it would be a tough sale and even with Andersson's drop in points this season (which I would relate to the Flames overall drop in scoring). Andersson's 11 goals beats out all of the other D in both the 2025 and 2026 UFA groups and is
tied for 14th overall for D goal scoring in the season.
2 late 1sts (or an early 2nd) is not a good return for trading that asset.
It is difficult to find a balanced valuation of Andersson on this message board because you have a vocal group yelling that Andersson is worthless or at best a second line player and then you have the other group who love Andersson and think he is so good that we are crazy to think about trading him.
Even though I am likely to be disappointed, I do think that the combination of Andersson's real value to hockey professionals and the scarcity of top line D for teams that do not have time to grow their own will bring back a significant asset and not a hodgepodge of spare parts.