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Originally Posted by Geeoff
has the potential to be one of the best goalies in the league during this deal, which will be bad for our draft position
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At this point I think it's becoming clear that Conroy sees the bulk of the rebuilding heavily through the draft coming to an end in the next 2-3 drafts. Once you remove Andersson, Coleman and potentially Kadri during that time, it's at the point where the guys you took the last 2 seasons should be pushing through and you've hopefully returned someone who fits the 1C role whether through the draft or via one of these above trades.
Not that it doesn't matter, but draft position is becoming less and less of an issue provided culture/playing the right way takes over and the team keeps nailing it's drafts as it has been. Wolf should be a perennial ~60 game starter with the potential to fight for a vezina and that will go a long way to making the above happen. It also won't hurt if Parekh and Reschny maximize themselves as well during this time.