Your logic would only make sense if it was a first round pick or maybe a 2nd round pick, such that the pick is used to get a guy you wouldn't have had a chance on otherwise.... and the value of the pick itself could appreciate based on draft order (e.g. if we are struggling or it became a lottery pick).
Once you start talking about a pick in the mid to late rounds, your logic makes no sense, since if you *really knew the guy you were drafting was good, you'd have taken him in the 5th, 4th, 3rd, or 2nd.
You’re missing what I’m gettig at. Nobody KNOWS whether or not any draft pick will pan out, regardless of what round it is.
What I’m saying is IF and of course it’s nothing more than a faint hope if, that pick turns out to be better than Wideman....then I’d argue the Sens are much better off having moved him for a better player...which in turn means the Sens do not “lose” the trade.
Regardless of whether or not a diamond in the rough could have been drafted with a different pick....if the pick from Edmonton turns out to be the pick that nets the player, then it’s a player the Sens would not have otherwise had.
Again this is a stupid debate as the odds of a 6th turning into anything useful is very very low. But that does not mean Ottawa has automatically “lost” a trade before the pick is even used.
You guys gain a potentially serviceable NHL dman....we free up ice time for a younger player and money for our penny pinching joke of an owner.
The trade benefits both teams.