GOilers88
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It was, and is, the inability to turn those draft picks into anything of substance thats the issue. Not trading them.Keep the picks, make the selections and develop the prospects.
Edmonton made the serious mistake of grabbing a pile of picks in their early stages of their forever rebuild and then pissed them away in stupid trades that only prolonged the agony. Conroy has hopefully learned from their mistake.
As long as Conroy and his team can make real use of some of their picks, trading others for proven talent, or to move up for someone they like is never a bad thing when retooling. If you really like a player in the top 10 I say go for it. You just have to be really sure of the potential. Even then you'll get burned eventually, but that's the nature of the beast.