herzausstein
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I'm not sure the oilers would do that... when healthy and playing to their potential, they are both smart, two-way D capable of 40 points. I think Ellis has his head screwed on a little bit more tightly, but he's also older and didn't play as well as he is now when he was Klef's age.
When Ellis was Klef's age, he put up back to back 27 point seasons (albeit one was a shortened season) and was playing 16-18/night. He wasn't already on (or asked to be on) a top pairing.
Klef had a bad season by his standards, but he's still young and signed to a great contract. Why would Edmonton add a 10th pick for the purpose of moving laterally on skill, slight upgrade on consistency and experience and (presumably) add significant salary?
My guess is that it would have to be something like 10th + Benning + Bear/Jones. Gives Nash a stop gap, NHL level D (that himself still has some potential), plus a decent D prospect + a 1oth. Why do NSH downgrade in the short term? They don't unless they don't feel that they can afford Ellis... and if they do, then this is a pretty solid return. Benning can fill in and makes only $2M. Bear/Jones + 10th could make them forget Ellis in 2 years.
From a Nashville perspective, I'd do Benning + 10th overall + Jones. Benning gives a capable stopgap on the right side. The dman we pick in the 10th overall can start on the third pairing and will be expansion draft exempt should there be one coming up shortly. Benning would be our d group expansion draft fodder and the draft dman/fabbro/Jones steps in the replacement him. Saves us alot of cap allowing in the near future allowing us to keep josi while improving our forward group as well. I'd probably do this without Jones involved as well but that's because I'm cynical after the suter situation and I'm concerned about expansion draft