Satiar Shah

They have their own budgetary concerns.

They got to pay Bo and Byram.

There are things they have to figure out already.

And if you're a team like Buffalo and they've amassed so many draft picks and they have later round picks, they've had all these things, to get a higher quality pick would be more of a motivation for them to ensure they're getting a top 20 prospect.

And if you're picking 20th,

you're most likely getting a top 15 player on your list because as we've talked about, every team has a different list.

And you're always going to see some guys jump and go down and whatnot.

So what that ultimately ends up doing is creating a situation where you're getting a player you have more highly ranked available for you at that spot.

And that's why you always hear teams when they draft somebody, and some of this is lip service, they're like, we had this guy in the top 15.

A lot of the time it's true because not everybody's list is the same.

Right?

So essentially, that's the way to go about it.

Yeah, and to me, that's a smart way of doing it.

Like, I'd rather go up the seven spots about Buffalo than say getting a late second round pick or a third even or something along those lines.

Like to me, that's a better way of going about it.

Now for Vancouver, though.

Well, this is where it gets interesting because there is a report by Aaron Portsline in The Athletic who is very plugged in when it comes to the Columbus Blue Jackets.

And he put together a list of potential trade targets for the Blue Jackets.

And lo and behold, the Canuck is on the list.

Brock Besser.