I'm all for accumulating picks, but a good portion on this board want quality talent on the team, and the lower picks are borderline nhl players. I would atleast entertain the idea of packaging the vegas pick and our 2nd to move up to the late teens if possible and someone we like slips.
I don't, unless the guy happens to have a Liljegren or Chychrun type fall and it's Dobson or Wahlstrom or something like that. I mean, it's gotta be a complete cratering of a top 5 pick's value for me to consider that. I'd rather roll the dice on a guy like Merkley at the Vegas pick than trade up. We not only need quality, but we do need quantity of some good prospects. And 27 + 36 I don't think gets you to late teens.
If they covet Mantha what about Mantha + 6 for 3 if Svechnikov is on the board?
No. Oh, god no.
Take Wahlstrom and keep Mantha if you want a wing. I don't think Andrei Svechnikov is an Anthony Mantha better than Oliver Wahlstrom.
If they covet Mantha, I give them Mantha for 3. Or Mantha + one of the second round picks. That's not enough to move up, but while I'd love to land Andrei Svechnikov, I'm more than content to sit at #6 and pick the D we want. No matter how it goes, we will get one of Dobson, Boqvist, Hughes or Bouchard. Hell, depending on what Ottawa and Arizona do... we could literally have our pick from all of those guys. Ottawa goes Tkachuk and Arizona goes Wahlstrom, we can take our pick of those four. At the very worst, we have at least two of those available as defensemen.
If you're not set in stone on one player... the Wings are in one hell of a position to get a defenseman.
