In 2011, Button had convinced Feaster to keep Kucherov and Gaudreau as 'wildcards' heading into the draft. Craig Button even had Kucherov as high as 18th in his draft standings. Kucherov had the size and Russian factor working against him, so it's possible that no matter how many 2nd round picks the Flames had they may not have taken him that high, but in retrospect how amazing would that draft had been if they traded down from 13th to pick up another 2nd to draft Kucherov.
There's also many examples of trading down coming back to bite teams in the ass.
So it depends for me, if 15th comes along and a player they were really high on is still there they might as well take him. If there's a couple options they stil like and they have a couple later pick 'wildcards,' sure trade down. It's always going to come down to how good and the scouting and development staff are.
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