Quoting: JTKing1
In my opinion, even if the Kraken's pick is valuable, I think Toronto goes for something more tangible than a 1st with the Marner Trade. Probably more like Gourde/McCann and Larson for Marner
Appreciate the reply. I get the thinking, but it's hard to do all your shopping in one place, especially because any team looking to trade for marner will be looking for immediate improvement as well, making someone like mcmann unlikely to be traded back our way.
It might make sense in a vacuum, but all these moves are meant to compliment one another. I thought about acquiring gourde, but preferred to have matthews-lindholm-Tavares to AM-JT-YG, especially considering lindholm is a free asset and let's us walk away with a valuable pick.
There might be an obvious option im not seeing that would make sense, but with the strength of that roster, I'd rather use the pick to draft another blue chip D who could be ready to play by the time myers expires.
IMO, I still spent a good amount of futures to make the team better in the present. An 8th overall pick would ideally not be far off from contributing either.