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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Macho says Buffalo only traded for "help now" and Funkhouser says they only got prospects. Funny.
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Not quite, they prioritize the future value of their prospects/picks rather than converting them into present value assets.
I mean they traded Savoie for a present day asset...but imagine what they could have got for a top ten pick if they had traded it earlier? What could they have traded the #1 pick (power) into? What about Rosen, Ostlund, Wahlberg, Helenius, Kulick, etc. All these first round picks could have been packaged into immediate support for their current core.
Montreal traded two mid-round firsts for a top pairing D this summer, beginning to fill out the holes in their roster. That is what a team should be doing once their core begins to be established.