(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.

we traded down and risked losing the guy we wanted. The expense was calculated risk. If anyone else wanted AH as much as we did, they could have traded ahead of where we ended up and we'd have incurred loss. It wasn't free money. It was a gamble. Part of the gamble paid out (AH), the other part did not (extra picks to help move up). That's how gambling works, otherwise it would just be called winning.

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(05-08-2023, 01:06 PM)wrong_box Wrote: I like the plan of the draft as in base hits, depth, ST. and competition for the biggest part of it and a few that look like they could be studs.

I can't hear 'base hits' without thinking of the gene-ius. woof.

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