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It'd be one thing to try to move up from 24 to using 41 and all that.

But if you're just going to swap out the picks for Jake DeBrusque, that makes sense.

And you retain having the four picks in the first 41.

So would you rather do that or get a second and a third for DeBrusque?

No, there's usually, like, a customary, like, this is the tier that... And you see where the break is.

Yeah, it goes to the same, you know, I've mentioned this philosophy before, but, you know, I'll take the loonie over the quarters, right?

You can give me four quarters, but I'm going to hang on to the loonie.

So if you're telling me you can get a second and a third, or you can have a 14th overall pick, I want the best asset in a trade every single time.

Because, A, you present yourself with more options.

If you wanted to, if there's a situation where Columbus really wants DeBrusque and this is how you solve it.

Well, having the asset of 14th overall to say, hey, we'll just trade back from 14 to 20 and maybe we'll get some pieces in the future.

Like you give yourself more options with more currency.

Yeah.

So having the best asset, even if you want to sit there and maybe it's a Cullen, maybe it's a Morozov, and you can pick them.

Or he's like, hey, now we own 14th pick, and now we can play around with this idea.

When you have the player, and especially a player on a term deal, you're...

pigeonholed a little bit with what your options are because you need someone interested with it.

But when you have 14th overall, it's just, it's a lot easier to kind of move around the board and continue to amass value.

Yeah, it's the creative way of going about things.

You know, that's what was so fun about today's trade.