Ail
Based and Rangerspilled.
If your scouting is good the more picks you have, the better off you are, assuming they're not all 5 - 7th rounders. Optimally yeah you'd have your first and try to maybe get a few extra picks in the middle rounds as well, but if you can leverage your first to make moves that help now as well as obtain middle round picks I would say that is preferable. Especially for a team who is trying to compete yearly. The reality is, and always will be, that for better or worse the Rangers are not a franchise who will accept bottom feeding willingly to obtain elite talent. So they might as well find a strategy that works for a team that is driven by the financial goal of just making the playoffs every year. So far, so good. The depleted farm comments espoused here are exaggerated. I'm more concerned that they moved a strong talent like Duclair that they were able to mine from middle rounds when that's the kind of talent they need to infuse as much of to stay competitive, particularly when the return is not something in the long-term plans. (Dumb.)