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Forum: Armchair-GMWed. at 2:27 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMTue. at 10:09 a.m.
Thread: Curious Marner for 2OA straight up
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CantStopWontStop</b></div><div>I think a challenge for the hawks is that Bedard is way ahead of the curve. Ideally, they would have waited another year or two before drafting him while some further defensive and core seeds were planted/tended.

There will most likely be a normal delay in any draft pick from this class helping the team. I don’t think you’d want to keep Bedard in an uncompetitive environment as he develops his nhl game. I don’t think you’d want to wait for some impact from this pick considering the wait is measured in years. If you consider who you could add to the team the coming years, I’m not sure there’s a better target. Perhaps there is. Ideally Mitch would be 24 or 25 but you can only add from what’s available, and he’s 26, so it isn’t like woah.

If a deal like this occurred, the hawks would still have Tampa’s pretty okay first, it’s own second which is way up there, and 2 firsts next season, so they’d still have the ability to develop a wave of talent. They’d just pull one asset forward.</div></div>

I understand what you're saying re: Bedard needs better talent around him.
However there's a better chance the Hawks trade their 2025 1st rounder for Marner if that trade was to happen. They aren't trading their 2nd OA pick this year. One could argue the 2nd rounder is a lot more valuable over Marner. Marner is going to cost the Hawks over 12,000,000 in cap space on a resign.