I'm not entirely sure, of course, but I expect that the Canes will trade their 1st this draft. Considering just how deep this draft is thought to be for forwards, there should be many fruitful opportunities in the 2nd and 3rd rounds for decent-chance lottery tickets.
I would be irate if we went down too far and didn't have a pick in say, the Top-35-40 unless we just sell the pick for immediate help. There's a definite tier line around 40 here. Picks at #29-32 where we're likely to be picking for a while aren't usually as good as what is projectable to be on the board for us tonight at #30.
Holding to the metaphor, we already hold too many $1 scratchers with limited but solid potential...if a quarter of them pan out, we're going to have middle-6 guys out the rear. We just don't need more...we have enough to insure a solid "next man up" churn for a while as long as we continue to have and accrue picks in the bottom half of the top-100 through attrition and draft well. None of lottery tickets except maybe Gleb Trikozov have any possibility of ever being a 30G or top-line guy.
Those are what we could use...$10 scratchers that have big jackpots...top-line potential, but either boom-or-bust or project picks. We're not getting those guys at #45-90 unless we get real lucky and nobody is getting them consistently.