If a pick is top 5-10 protected ....

[AlesHemskyIsMyGod]

just a quick question

If a pick is top 10 protected that was traded off and the team who traded them does end up in the bottom 10 ...

Do they have to replace the pick with a first rounder from another year or how does it work ?

 

[Seanaconda]

just a quick question

If a pick is top 10 protected that was traded off and the team who traded them does end up in the bottom 10 ...

Do they have to replace the pick with a first rounder from another year or how does it work ?

It depends on what they agree on but that's what would happen with the sens pick it would slide to the next year if they decided to keep it

 

[BleedBlue14]

The STL one is protected in a sense that if the 1st is top 10 they can move it to next year but I believe they would also have to throw in their 3rd.

 

[Gnashville]

Usually it slides to the next year and is unprotected and the team has to give an extra draft pick in a later round.

 

[boredmale]

One thing I don't wonder is why don't GMs make a condition in a trade that if my pick ends up in the top 10, I have the rights to trade that pick down till it's 11th. That is personally how I would try safeguard my picks

 

[Alluckks]

"Hi everyone, I don't wanna google something so please just tell me"

 

[The Abusement Park]

"Hi everyone, I don't wanna google something so please just tell me"

Unnecessary man, this is a good place to ask questions that you are unsure about. No need to be a jerk when he's just asking a question.

 

[DaPhazz]

"Hi everyone, I don't wanna google something so please just tell me"

Since when asking a relevant hockey question on a hockey blog became wrong?

 

[MakeTheGoalsLarger]

Protected picks shouldn't be allowed imo.

When I see protected pick in a trade suggestion I stop reading. Like when a fan posts a trade suggestion involving his favorite team's 1 st pick and his team is actually positioned to make the playoffs but he specifies that the pick is protected because he wants to be sure that there isn't even the slightest chance that this trade doesn't rip off the other team.

 

[Voight]

I know in the NBA sometimes it'll be top 3 protected one year, then top 5, then top 10, then top 15 and eventually either its unprotected or turns into two 2nds. Thing is tho, in the NBA you can't trade your first round pick two years in a row so that's why it varies so much.

 

[The Macho King]

Protected picks shouldn't be allowed imo.

When I see protected pick in a trade suggestion I stop reading. Like when a fan posts a trade suggestion involving his favorite team's 1 st pick and his team is actually positioned to make the playoffs but he specifies that the pick is protected because he wants to be sure that there isn't even the slightest chance that this trade doesn't rip off the other team.

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Ummm, this is stupid. A first round pick has a lot of value. Generally you get a contributing NHLer with upside from even a pick in the teens and twenties. You might get Tom Wilson or you might get Erik Karlsson, but generally you're getting at least a decent player.

Protecting says "I value this player we are getting as an equivalent to a first round pick, but not a lottery pick." I don't see what's wrong with that.

 

[ManofSteel55]

just a quick question

If a pick is top 10 protected that was traded off and the team who traded them does end up in the bottom 10 ...

Do they have to replace the pick with a first rounder from another year or how does it work ?

It depends on the conditions of the deal, which is why they are usually reported as "conditional draft picks". Sometimes its the next years' first round pick. It could be a later pick in the first round if the team trading the picks has one from another team. We see conditional picks quite often but its rarely based on a top 10 finish or anything like that, more often they are based on playoff performance (if the next team makes x round its a 1st rounder, if not its a 2nd).

 

[ManofSteel55]

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Ummm, this is stupid. A first round pick has a lot of value. Generally you get a contributing NHLer with upside from even a pick in the teens and twenties. You might get Tom Wilson or you might get Erik Karlsson, but generally you're getting at least a decent player.

Protecting says "I value this player we are getting as an equivalent to a first round pick, but not a lottery pick." I don't see what's wrong with that.

There is a huge discrepancy in values between a top 15 pick and a 15 - 31 pick. Top 15 picks are much more likely to make it, and more likely to be an impact player. Protected picks are rarely included in trades. There are usually other conditions other than "top 10 protected" because teams with top 10 picks usually don't want to trade them before draft day.

 

[Doohickie]

"Hi everyone, I don't wanna google something so please just tell me"

Funny thing about that.... I googled it and it brought me to this thread.

 

[Doohickie]

The specific question I was looking to answer is whether an NHL pick can be protected for more than one year?

 

[Seachd]

The specific question I was looking to answer is whether an NHL pick can be protected for more than one year?

I doubt there’s a rule about it, but I also don’t see why the team receiving the pick would agree to that.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

It's funny cause it's something I've always kinda wondered(was never 100%sure all the rules) but never took the time to Google and always thought it would be a stupid question to ask lol

 

[Doohickie]

In my googling, apparently in the NBA there's a whole hierarchy of protecting picks over multiple seasons.

In a discussion I was having with someone, they said there's no rule against it as such in the NHL, but it's just not done.