Lindros was traded for question marks and we built a dynasty off of that trade. It really comes down to how you view those specific question marks and what you can do with them. Personally I'm a fan of those specific guys, at least the two forwards...haven't seen enough of Hanifin to know if I believe the hype on him or not, but our scouts have. If they think he's the goods I'd love that trade. That is enough high end pieces that we can afford to risk McJesus living up to the hype and still end up a better team for it given the pieces we already have.
Would they take Marner third though? That's about as low as their pick will go. And really a scorer?
Lindros wasn't traded for just question marks though. 4 proven NHL players came back in that trade too.
Avs must keep McDavid when (not if) they land him. They could trade one of Duchene or Landeskog for a kings ransom.
Even if its likely someone gets traded, that will be a fun camp/preseason
with or without ROR
But I cant imagine ROR is still an Av past the first round if the unthinkable happens and we get Mcjesus.
Hmmm... Armchair GM time
Draft McDavid 1st Overall
Trade Matt Duchene for Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Trade Ryan O'Reilly for Lars Eller, Nathan Beaulieu, and Montreal's 1st Round Pick in 2015 (Sake of simplicity)
Draft Paul Bittner with that 1st round pick
Landeskog-MacKinnon-McGinn
Tanguay-McDavid-Iginla
Everberg-Eller-Rendulic
McLeod-Mitchell-Talbot
Ekman Larsson-Johnson
Beaulieu-Barrie
Bigras-Stuart
Hmm...
Tangs and Iginla would likely be retired before the rest of the forwards are really ready to compete though
Hmmm... Armchair GM time
Draft McDavid 1st Overall
Trade Matt Duchene for Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Trade Ryan O'Reilly for Lars Eller, Nathan Beaulieu, and Montreal's 1st Round Pick in 2015 (Sake of simplicity)
Draft Paul Bittner with that 1st round pick
Landeskog-MacKinnon-McGinn
Tanguay-McDavid-Iginla
Everberg-Eller-Rendulic
McLeod-Mitchell-Talbot
Ekman Larsson-Johnson
Beaulieu-Barrie
Bigras-Stuart
Hmm...
I kinda hope they dont win the lottery
I will probably lose so many nights sleep just thinking
about trade proposals till the draft
That team would tank really well next season when relying on two children to be our top 6 centers lead to the expected results. Trading Duchene before MacK and McJesus have developed would be asinine, and even then it would likely be very dumb.
Draft McDavid, Resign ROR this summer(5x7M). Sign UFA Sekera in the Summer, trade 2016 1st + McGinn + Elliott to ARI for Yandle in the summer.
Go into 2016 looking like this:
Tanguay - Duchene - Iggy
Landy - McJesus - Mackinnon
Everbeast - ROR - Malkin
Talbot - Cliche - McCleod
Yandle - EJ
Sekera - Barrie
Stuart - Redmond
Holden - Guenin
Varly
Salary cap be damned, we're winning the cup next year.