Have you noticed? Word is out: Dallas Stars GM Jim Nill is officially open to shopping the Stars’ highest draft pick since the team came to Texas.
Before you freak out – because we’re all thinkin’ about it – take a look at Jared Clinton’s new article in The Hockey News. He makes the case that, for a team in the Stars’ position, trading a 2017 third-overall for something a little more...immediate will pay the right kind of just-in-time benefits:
...[T]he reason the third-overall selection can make more impact for the Stars next season than the first- or second-overall picks will make in New Jersey and Philadelphia, respectively, isn’t because whoever’s taken with the pick can come into an already-powerful lineup and produce Calder Trophy calibre numbers.