What WOULDN'T you Trade for 1st Overall?

[innitfam]

EP
Hughes
Demko
Boeser (?)

 

[txpd]

Tom Wilson

 

[Namikaze Minato]

Tom Wilson

Edgy.

 

[nbwingsfan]

Seider, Raymond and maybe Larkin but that's it

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

Larkin, Raymond, Seider, Zadina, hell maybe even Vrana

I don’t have much faith in this draft

 

[Mickey Marner]

I wouldn't trade for #1 this season. This draft looks like one where trading back from 1st is the smart move.

 

[FireGerardGallant]

This year? Kakko Laf Fox aka the 3 guys they should built the team around.

 

[snag]

 

[mondo3]

probably Scheifele, Ehlers, Connor, Hellebuyck

Dubois?

 

[Zach716]

If you trade 1OA to yourself are you really giving up anything

 

[TruePowerSlave]

MacKinnon, Rantanen, Makar and Girard

 

[Voight]

Owen Power seems like he'll be a really good d-man but next year is the big prize with Shane Wright available. He actually outperformed McDavids rookie year (they were both underagers). (Not saying he'll be better, but Wright is going to be the best prospect since Matthews)

 

[Chrisinroch]

Wild

Brodin, Spurgeon, Kaprisov, JEEK,

 

[Kuljeskelen]

Larkin, Raymond, Seider, Zadina, hell maybe even Vrana

I don’t have much faith in this draft

Yzerman?

 

[Black Kevin]

Half of Carolina guys > Beniers. So not too many guys I would trade for the 1st overall pick.

 

[jetsforever]

Dubois?

Right, forgot about him

 

[Sweetpotato]

Everyone except Connor/Drais are available for a 1oa. It would just depends what combination of those assets the other team would want.

2022 or 2023 1oa...even 2oa would be picks that you sell your soul for lol

 

[42]

From the Flames I probably trade any individual player for 1st overall this year, even if it's a down draft. If I knew I could re-sign Gaudreau he'd be off the table.

I wouldn't trade Lindholm or Tkachuk.

 

[innitfam]

This year? Kakko Laf Fox aka the 3 guys they should built the team around.

Panarin?

 

[WingsMJN2965]

Everyone except Connor/Drais are available for a 1oa. It would just depends what combination of those assets the other team would want.

2022 or 2023 1oa...even 2oa would be picks that you sell your soul for lol

Honestly I’d probably take Savoie over anybody in this draft, and he’s pretty much the consensus #3 next year.

Then again, I’d keep Raymond over #1 this year, and he was fourth.

 

[DeysArena]

I would trade anything for One, but I won't trade that.

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

Yzerman?

Sure but most haven’t gotten a good look at the prospects because of COVID, I think this draft will be a crapshoot

 

[Lolonegoal]

A lot. Not as many #1 overalls are as impactful as you think. It was just we were spoiled for a while with Ovy, Crosby, Kane, Stamkos, Tavares in a short period of time.

Hall, RNH, Yakupov, Mackinnon, Ekblad, McDavid, Matthews, Hischier, Dahlin, Hughes, Lafreniere

Basically three gamebreakers in the last 10 drafts went 1st overall. Many, probably all, of them except those three are not the best player from their draft several years later.

McDavid, Mackinnon and Matthews are possibly all top 5 players in the NHL.

Hall has won a Hart trophy and wasted his career on terrible teams.

Ekblad's as good as if not better than the standard #1 overall D-man pick. Compare to Hamrlik, Jovanovski, Berard, Phillips, Johnson.. Even if you include #2,3,4,5 etc. picks in recent years only really Doughty, Hedman, Pietroangelo and a few others if you go a ways back (Pronger, Niedmayer) are better. So you can't really say this pick was disappointing.

The last 4 are far too soon to judge.

So basically two of the last decade have been duds. Or a 80% success rate. That's an A.

 

[Howboutthempanthers]

This season? A lot of stuff. Next season it gets trickier.

 

[CatchyTune]

Probably just the big 4