I think I count 20 names through tier 4. So if the draft unfolds that way and trading up is prohibitively expensive (likely) the Wild would end up drafting from that fifth tier anyway. In that case trading back would definitely make sense so they can at least come away with (2) of the good and interesting but not great prospects in Tier 5.
San Jose looks like the most obvious partner for that imo.
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Also it looks like this is just the straight from the source pod cast transcription. If you listened to the pod this is redundant.
Here and in the broader interview he did with journalists on the Wild’s website he seems to voluntarily bring up trading back quite a bit.
Imo there’s like five tiers of prospects up to about pick 40 in the 2nd round
Tier 1: Bedard
Tier 2: Fantili, Carlsson, Michkov
Tier 3: smith, benson, moore, leonard, perrault, reinbacher, dvorsky
Tier 4 : wood, simashev, willander, musty, but, ritchie, danielson, barlow, sawchyn
Tier 5 : sandin-pelikka, sale, mukhanov, bonk, stramel, whitelaw, gauthier, perron, brindley, molgaard, molendyk, stenburg, gulyayev, dragicevic, yager, cristall, cagnoni
I think I count 20 names through tier 4. So if the draft unfolds that way and trading up is prohibitively expensive (likely) the Wild would end up drafting from that fifth tier anyway. In that case trading back would definitely make sense so they can at least come away with (2) of the good and interesting but not great prospects in Tier 5.
San Jose looks like the most obvious partner for that imo.