I wished it could be as easy as this, but we are talking about Ottawa here, a place where the owner is not a big spender. May I also point out that we have been drafting good players for the last several years and even if some are still with the organisation, some others have left either because they did not turnout to be what we expected or simply because we couldn't afford their cost.
It nice to draft top players from the amateur draft selection, but the Crosby type of player don't come around every year, and even when you draft good players, you need a good core of established players to surround them. Prime example is the Edmonton Oilers.
Also, lets not forget that we have 2 UFA`s and 4 RFA`s in year 2015/2016 and then some more in year 2016/2015 and the year after and so on. At that point we will need to decide if we want either to resign them or trade them. In most cases these players will end-up being players that we have drafted and developed in our organisation and we may not even have the money to pay them. Look at the list on this website (
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/draft/teams/dr00007328.html) and see how many players, before the year we picked Karlsson are still with the organisation.
My point is that since we have a small window to make of Ottawa a good competitive team, if we don`t trade now to get good established NHL caliber players, by the time our draft players will have reached their full potential, some of of our good players will have left and and then we will need to restart all over again.
So lets forget about improving our draft position and see what we could get by way of a trade.