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Originally Posted by RedHawk12
You're right, but then you get into a completely different debate of whether we should have traded Andersson earlier when he had term, or in the summer. 15th OA picks are available then, see Markstrom.
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The pick from the Markstrom trade was actually 18th, and it was only as high as that because Jersey screwed up. They thought he would make a bigger difference than that, and that they wouldn't miss Bahl. Wrong on both counts.
Usually, teams aren't trading their 1st in a given season unless they're pretty confident they will be contending that year. Of course sometimes they get it wrong, but it's a fairly long shot.