Emotionally in 2018
Rejoint: nov. 2016
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As much as I want to win right now and upgrade the defense, I don't want to part with a first round pick. If it means targeting someone with less term or something then I'd rather do that. I get why we want to go all-in right now, but I still think we should be keeping our first round picks to try and draft well enough that we don't need a full rebuild. That's just my take on it, and if it trading the first brings us another Cup, I ultimately don't care. I'll go back to my favorite suggestion of trading for Vatanen. As a rental, he should cost a good chunk less than Manson and the two are very similar players. If that type of player proves to be a good fit in our top four, then we can (hopefully) resign him.
I'm not completely opposed to adding Manson at the cost of a first round pick, and if something like this happened, I wouldn't be up in arms. But I personally would just prefer finding a cheaper potential solution.