Clarkson with 5th overall Pick, or 10th overall pick and no Clarkson?

[Mattavarner]

Which scenario would you rather be in?
Have Clarkson still, and get the 5th overall pick, or do the Horton trade and have the 10th overall pick?

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[Bernier the Boats]

Trading up from 10 to 5 would cost at the bare minimum another 1st. Wouldn't trade Clarkson+1st for nothing at this point, especially knowing there are deals like the Horton deal out there.

 

[Eb]

Yes, because one relies on the other to happen. Of course.

 

[Warden of the North]

Wheres the "No clarkson and 5th overall pick option"? Because I choose that one.

 

[Radiohead]

Yes, because one relies on the other to happen. Of course.

Trading Clarkson might have made the Leafs slightly better. Who knows?

 

[gamer1035]

You think Clarkson is the difference between 5th last and 10th last?


maybe if we used that salary we gained on a player thats actually worth it.

 

[Northernguy10]

To me, the depth of this draft makes this a no brainer. The 10th pick can easily end up being better than the 5th pick when all is said and done.

 

[HellasLEAF]

strange thread. the variables make no sense.

 

[MR4]

Bahaha lock please, like hell 1 person makes a tank

 

[topched]

Lol what he said^

This won't be the choice... will still finish bottom 5

 

[trellaine201]

no idea what the OP is asking or where he got it from

 

[Orfieus]

It is pretty simple if you had a choice between top5 pick + Clarkson or top10 pick which would you choose?

I choose top10 pick

 

[Ari91]

I'd take the top 5 pick and Clarkson. If you look at the logistics surrounding this trade, there's no reason it couldn't have happened in the off-season unless, for some inexplicable reason, there was some other team that was interested in taking Horton's contract off of Columbus' hands.

To me, there was a good possibility that we keep Clarkson until the end of the year, get the top 5 pick and then trade Clarkson as soon as off-season trades began.