Rejoint: juill. 2021
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When judging a trade like this, you have to look at the earliest pick, because that was the only known quantity at the time. Winnipeg wanted Stanley badly enough to trade up to make sure they got him. Nobody who was available at that time stood out on Philadelphia’s list. They may have had a handful of players they considered pretty much equal, so they figured they could do just as well by waiting. Who was right? Probably Winnipeg, because Stanley has turned out to be better than the players picked #19-22, but if Philadelphia wasn’t going to pick Stanley anyway, I don’t think it hurt them much to miss out on the next three players drafted, Kieffer Bellows, Dennis Cholowski and Julien Gauthier. It looks like Tage Thompson was the guy they should have picked, but he didn’t go until #26, so they likely would have made that mistake with or without this trade.