“The beauty with this draft is when you got four picks in the top 36 and you got three thirds, you got more options,” Wright said. “You got options to trade up, you got options to trade back. I think that’s the exciting thing about this.
I really don’t want the Red Wings trade up. It’s probably more beneficial to take as many kicks at the can as possible. Maybe if a potential trade up involved packaging a 2nd and 3rd for a mid-or-late 1st? I don’t know. Even if that was the deal, I’d probably rather just keep the extra picks.