Some Draft Picks

Team: 2020-21 Arizona Coyotes

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Published: Sep. 12, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

In my opinion, the biggest front-office challenge for the next couple of years is making something out of the Arizona Coyotes. Thin prospect pool, aging defense, no draft picks = very little to work with.

I'm starting from the premise that there is a core of players who should not be moved, no matter the temptation: Keller, Schmaltz, Dvorak, Hayton, Garland, Chychrun and Kuemper, plus prospects Soderstrom and Capobianco. And I think it's going to be hard to move Kessel or Ekman-Larsson. So the options are limited. I think that the basic principle should be that any trade brings back a draft pick (that isn't a monkey point).

I think Stepan and Raanta are tradeable assets with numerous possible destinations. Hjalmarsson's future is a little more limited.

Note that there's plenty of money in the bank to re-sign Taylor Hall -- assuming a rational figure, of course.

I can see Grabner and Demers being moved at the trade deadline if not sooner, but I haven't put in any thought as to who might need them right now.

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