(05-08-2023, 10:23 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(05-08-2023, 09:42 AM)Mikey Wrote: Bad analogy.

We had a $10 bill. We exchanged that with someone for $9.00 and $2 CDN, thinking that we could combine those foreign bills with 3 or 4 bucks left in our wallet to get 5 or 6 additional bucks to spend, but nobody wanted the foreign currency. So, we were left with our 3 or 4 bucks and whatever we could buy with canuckicash.

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No, we had a $10 bill and exchanged it for a $10 bill and $2 CDN.  I say that because we still drafted the player we were going to draft anyway.  We gained 2 late round picks at no expense.

The strategy had two phases. 

Phase One: Trade back and acquire capital
Phase Two: Use capital to move back into round round three or four

Phase Two failed. It happens. They tried, they failed. 

The "free picks" in round 6, 7 and 8 were extreme long shots to begin with, and they are now even greater longshots because we have SEVEN players from those rounds  - and  we may only keep one or two of them. We won't be able to develop most of them because there is no room on the roster.

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