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Which raises the question… have they ever paid a 1st round pick in recent years for a pure rental? Guentzel was a conditional 1st that ended up being a 2nd round pick but I don’t think they paid a 1st round pick for any of those players.
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Depends on what you consider recent, but they gave up a 1st for Brady Skjei in 2020. They had two 1sts and kept the right to decide which one the Rangers got (they got one in the Marleau trade).
Fun fact, that pick was traded to the Flames along with the pick that became Poirier, for the pick that became Braden Schneider. It was then traded to the Caps for the pick that would become Zary and the pick that would become Boltmann. The Caps drafted Hendrix Lapierre.
That was the first 1st round pick the Canes traded since the Andrej Sekera trade in 2015.