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I see him as a Dan Cleary type m ore than Abdelkader. Abdelkader needs to play with top players to produce, I think/hope Bertuzzi is going to be able to put up 40-ish points a year while spending time on the 3rd line, too. Abdelkader can't do that.

Yeah, if we're being honest, the 1st round is sort of a crapshoot. First 3-5 picks are pretty safe, but mostly it's voodoo. Which is to say, the NHL entry draft is, on the whole, almost more of an art than a solid science. If we're getting an additional 1st, it's going to be in the 15-31 range, probably more like 27-31. (A 1st from a bubble team would be lottery protected, so that's not really worth considering.) When you're in that territory, the tail end of the 1st round, you have to ask yourself if, say, two 2nds wouldn't be a better return than just a lone 1st. Or maybe a 2nd/3rd/4th and a really good prospect like Callan Foote or Dante Fabbro. Point being, 1sts aren't everything. Look at how many of today's high-end NHLers were taken outside of the 1st round. It's quite a list.

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Fixed it Seriously, look at the draft history of first round picks. Outside of the top 5-10 picks, there are a lot of guys who end up more like Smith or Sheahan than Weber or Kane

That's exactly why they're tradable assets, teams obviously wont trade anything for Frk, Glendening or Helm. Tatar and Nyquist would have big time interest to teams as secondary scoring I would think. We need a few more core players to say the least, if trading them help get some more picks to get them then lets do it-rebuild this somab*tch

Your second paragraph makes your supporting argument in the first one meaningless then. Why would you do that to yourself???

Fixed it. A lot of late first round draft picks don't even make the NHL.

Isn't Abby pretty much doing that this year? He has 21 points in 44 games, and has played quite a bit on our 3rd line.

well so far he's having a good first full season in GR and today's game saw him finish with 2a and a +5 rating. He is GRs leading D as a rookie in points and team leading in + - . He has 5+18 in 40 games and a +19.

Hell be cheap until he signs his contract then we have 2 Abbys

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