If your team won the #1 pick, would you trade it for picks #3 and #5?
Would you and why?

As a PIT fan, we're pretty stacked at LW with Guentzel, Zucker, McCann, ZAR in lines 1-4. Lafreniere and Stutzle are great but getting them would force (most likely) Guentzel to RW as Zucker and McCann for sure can't play RW. Guentzel is a 40-goal scorer and is coming off shoulder surgery and I don't want to mess anything up there. If I knew I could get Byfield at #3 and a RW/D at #5 I would make that deal. Stutzle at #3 and X doesn't seem as attractive.

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What do you think? Would you trade pick #1 for picks #3 and #5?

No because Ottawa wouldnt do it. Pittsburgh should definitely do it

I have thought about this.

Thing is if you take Laf you get a bigger guy who's physical. The penguins lack that in the top 6.

However, if you take Stutzle, you got a guy who projects to C at the NHL level. He's very much a Barzal like player. Fast, stick handles really well, hard on the puck. He played both LW and C in Europe. With his speed in the NHL game he's probably more suited to play C. As the smaller ice, putting him in the center of it makes him the most dangerous.

I wouldn't take Byfield. I think off all the guys in the top 8 he's the most likely to be a bust. He relied way to much on his size playing against smaller kids.
Meanwhile the knocks on him are that he takes plays off and has bad practice habits.
I think his comparison is a lot more to a pool party kind of player. Big, was physical on the kids. But couldn't transform that game to the NHL level. Given the other guys out there, I would pass on him till outside the top 5.

Having said that, if you could move 1 for 3 and 5 and take Dry and Raymond or Holtz. I think you do that.
But who ever you take on those picks has to be NHL ready otherwise you are missing out.

IF PIT got pick #1 and wanted to trade down but OTT wanted PIT to add what would they want?

Pick #1 and Murray
for
Picks #3 and #5
?

That's an interesting take on Stutzle. I heard he played LW in the German league but C at the worlds. if he can play C in the NHL I'm for it.
I get how byfield might not be able to dominate against men in the NHL as he has against kids but he's still what, like 6' 4'' 215 lbs? that's still big and he models his game after Geno so that would be pretty cool.
Holtz is really nice as well. if it's Lafreniere or Byfield/Stutzle and Holtz that would be hard to pass up.

Whoops posted twice.

If pens won first overall there’s no way they’d move it. Any team that won first overall wouldn’t move it. Laf is clear cut the best player in this draft, miles ahead of anyone else.

Under NO circumstances would I make this trade. Alexis is NHL ready. In fact, I don't think MTL would trade him for picks 3,4, & 5!!!

it's tough but I probably would. getting two pieces for a post 87 era would be huge

NO-
Like GMJR always says, U try to get the best player in the trade. Laffy = Best player

Zucker has played more RW in MIN than LW... he has done it easily before

That’s good then. If the Pens draft Laffy, they can keep both him & Zucker.

ahh good. I heard wrong then cause I heard Zucker had never played RW. Good to know. gives sully options.

Yah, He's played a ton of RW in MIN

I would trade my #1 for the #3 and #5, but I would not trade my #3 and #5 for the #1.

For the Leafs, yes.

Byfield + drysdale would be a blessing for years to come

Lol, I just had this thought the other day ... I wouldn't ... not that any player is a sure-thing, but there's a 99% chance Lafreniere turns out to be an NHL star ... 3 and 5 are much bigger question marks and while they could end up being more valuable together than Lafreniere alone, I'm not going to take that chance.