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Does A Team Really Need To Keep Those Draft Picks?
by Paul on 01/19/10 at 02:23 PM ET
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from Kevin McGran of the Toronto Star,
There is a certain chic to suggesting that little can be done at the trade deadline to help a team win the Stanley Cup, that successful franchises retain their draft picks – even acquire more – and that unsuccessful teams trade picks away in a misguided managerial stupor.
But we’ll take cold, hard stats over chic any day.
How else to explain that the NHL’s most successful franchise over the past 11 seasons, the Detroit Red Wings, has traded away more draft picks (13) in deadline deals than any other team.
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