No one wants Laff players either. Rude awakening brewing for Lafnation in 2017. The Avs say hello.
- Nuck4U

Man how old are you? I'm mean really! How franking old are you do you enjoy being a goof with a capital G? Theirs no way in hell your older than 17? at best ! And that's a stretch

Ah, the voice of reason. Any prospect in the top tier should not be traded for two very good reasons.

One is that you build through the draft and control your most valuable assets. Develop the draft picks properly and you should be able to retain this top talent not only through their rookie year signed contract, but also retain them when they sign their first after rookie contract.

The second reason not to trade the #7 pick, is that until your young core is more proven, that core is too much projection and not yet enough close to realizing their full potential.

Your idea does make sense if you want to fill seats by making the team marginally better. Just beware that in an expansion year, a #7 overal in a weak draft year is not giing to pry away a young core player. If a current core player is available from any team, you have to consider the player's age and why he woukd be available. Top protected players is the future of teams. Few impact players come aboard as rookies taken only a few months prior to training camp.

Where else do you acquire top core players. Someone said OEL is walking ASAP. And whi wa ts to come play for the woebegotten Coyotes. You simply have to hold on to your #7 but #23 yiu could investigate trading. Maybe a current Coyote plus the pick for an upgrade of a current roster player.

One other point is critical. In a rebuild you can always find a lot of role players and others chopping to play in the NHL. They are not expensive to accumulate, although timing means a lot. So you probably have to chip away adding and improving that cast. All the while, though, try very hard and perhaps pass on drafting your best rated prospect, in favor of selecting instead the highest rated center or dman. The strength of teams in each sport is always its guts.....dman, goalie, center.

Ah, the voice of reason. Any prospect in the top tier should not be traded for two very good reasons.

One is that you build through the draft and control your most valuable assets. Develop the draft picks properly and you should be able to retain this top talent not only through their rookie year signed contract, but also retain them when they sign their first after rookie contract.

The second reason not to trade the #7 pick, is that until your young core is more proven, that core is too much projection and not yet enough close to realizing their full potential.

Your idea does make sense if you want to fill seats by making the team marginally better. Just beware that in an expansion year, a #7 overal in a weak draft year is not giing to pry away a young core player. If a current core player is available from any team, you have to consider the player's age and why he woukd be available. Top protected players is the future of teams. Few impact players come aboard as rookies taken only a few months prior to training camp.

Nonetheless, you consider where you acquire too talent...and the #7 should be part of that equation down the road. Not part of the equation is whatever you get from trading that pick. The impact from the #7 player is high while the helpfulness of whatever you would get from trading said pick is not great enough to make much difference W/L on such a young Coyote roster.

Where else do you acquire top core players. Someone said OEL is walking ASAP. And who wants to come play for the woebegotten Coyotes. You simply have to hold on to your #7 but #23 you could investigate trading. Maybe a current Coyote plus the pick for an upgrade of a current roster player.

One other point is critical. In a rebuild you can always find a lot of role players and others chopping to play in the NHL. They are not expensive to accumulate, although timing means a lot. So you probably have to chip away adding and improving that cast. All the while, though, try very hard and perhaps pass on drafting your best rated prospect, in favor of selecting instead the highest rated center or dman. The strength of teams in each sport is always its guts.....dman, goalie, center.
- jhawk59

@Tanner taking your Leaf analysis of in prime type players with a center to help solidly and lead youth. What about Sutter from Nucks with nice cap hit to make the floor too. For both picks sure Canucks would add in their prime mentors Sbisa and Dorset with their lovely cap hits. Add in a Rodin too to balance out talent injection. That's for fast skating vet players for two draft picks. That will give Yotes some can play now NHL prime time mentors to mix with young talent.
- Nuck4U

man this is the dumbest thing i have ever read.

@Tanner taking your Leaf analysis of in prime type players with a center to help solidly and lead youth. What about Lupul from Leafs with nice cap hit to make the floor too. For both picks sure Leafswould add in their prime mentors Horton and rights to Robidas with their lovely cap hits. Add in a Finger too to balance out talent injection. That's for fast skating vet players for two draft picks. That will give Yotes some can play now NHL prime time mentors to mix with young talent.

@Tanner taking your Leaf analysis of in prime type players with a center to help solidly and lead youth. What about Lupul from Leafs with nice cap hit to make the floor too. For both picks sure Leafswould add in their prime mentors Horton and rights to Robidas with their lovely cap hits. Add in a Finger too to balance out talent injection. That's for fast skating vet players for two draft picks. That will give Yotes some can play now NHL prime time mentors to mix with young talent.
- Atomic Wedgie

No one wants Laff players either. Rude awakening brewing for Lafnation in 2017. The Avs say hello.
- Nuck4U

oh stop it with such stupidity.
You dont believe that.

man this is the dumbest thing i have ever read.
- SRam19

You seem to lack understanding of humor and sarcasm which is a product of other issues that malign you.

Man how old are you? I'm mean really! How franking old are you do you enjoy being a goof with a capital G? Theirs no way in hell your older than 17? at best ! And that's a stretch
- MR.Hunter

You came into the Canuck thread Trolling that line. It's interesting how someone with maturity issues would project that onto others. Are you neglected at home and need to lash out?!?

oh stop it with such stupidity.
You dont believe that.
- Fakepartofme

That was for Walshy not respectable Leaf posters. Did you not think his original post had stupidity to it?