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This and all other "offers" I've seen for the second overall pick ignore the basic reality, which is that they look "reasonable" only from the guys holding #5. All of this posturing avoids the key issue, which is that Bedard and Fantilli are projected to be generational talents like McDavid and Eichel or perhaps MacKinnon and Draisaitl, and the guys at 3-4-5 aren't. This isn't a draft like last year's, where the consensus #1 actually went #4. Despite all the late talk about what a great prospect Leo Carlsson is, the undeniable fact is that there is a noticeable gap between the first two guys and the rest of the pack.
Looking at the 2015 (McDavid and Eichel) draft is instructive. There aren't three players in the 3 to 10 group from that year, and I consider at least 5 of them to be All-Stars, that you would prefer to have over Eichel (or MacKinnon or Draisaitl). And when you look at the players from 21 through 32, there aren't any two from the top 10 and one from the bottom 12 that you would take over Eichel or Draisaitl, either -- and at least 4 of those bottom 12 are outright busts. So this talk about #5 plus #31 is just silly due to the "zero value risk" of the later pick.
My point is that until proven otherwise, Fantilli is a franchise player. Carlsson, Smith and Michkov are hugely good prospects, but not franchise-level players, and neither Hutson nor Guhle nor even Caufield plus the #31 make up for that discrepancy. Anaheim won't be trading out of #2, and REALLY won't be trading out of #2 for a draft-pick-chart exchange.