you should grade these idiots

OTT acquiring Top 5 pick while keeping #6
What would it take for OTT to acquire one of the top 5 picks in this year’s draft? The goal is to do so without losing key players on the current roster and keeping our #6 draft pick. Blue chip prospects Cowen and Rundblad are also off limit. So what’s left you say? Well most of our current roster, most of the Binghamton Senators and the following draft picks:
- Pick #21 (1st round)
- Pick #35 (2nd round)
- Pick #48 (2nd round)
- Pick #59 (2nd round)
- Pick #65 (3rd round)
I think there’s a pool of promising prospects and an abundance of picks to perhaps entice a team to trade away their top 5 pick to us… is there enough worthy assets here to get a deal done?

http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=922810

so this epitomizes the "my quantity of trash’ for your treasure.

Derek Zona over at copper and blue put together a hypothetical a little while ago:

I am offering you the 7th overall pick for your pick numbers 46, 76, 106, 136, 166 and 196. All else being equal, do you accept my offer?

In the comments someone compared what this would have yielded for the last 10 years or so:

1996 – Erik Rasmussen – Geoff Peters, Dmitri Subkotin, Mike Martone, Andreas Dackell, Eion McIrney, Andrej Podkicky
1997 – Paul Mara – Wes Jarvis, Petr Sykora, Jame Pollock, Mike Yorkm Kris Knoblauch, Jeremy Syvington
1998 – Manny Malhotra – Justin Papineau, Alexei Volkon, Krys Barch, David Jonsson, Johnathan Pelletier, Joel Scherban
1999 – Kris Beech – Dmitri Levinski, Frantisek Kaberle, Rail Rozakov, Dustin Jamieson, Corey Pecker, Vadim Tarasov
2000 – Lars Jonsson – Jaret Stoll, Mike Rupp, Scott Balen, Dmitry Upper, Nolan Schaeffer, David Ballantyne
2001 – Mike Komisarek – Mike Zigomanis, Oliver Setzinger, Christian Erhoff, Bill Thompson, Andy Chiodo, Charlie Hopkins
2002 – Joffrey Lupul – David Leneveu, Michael Tessier, Ivan Koltzer, Andy Sertich, Tyler Weiman, Michael Vurion
2003 – Ryan Suter – Dan Fritsche, Richard Stahlik, Jan Hejda, Mike Vannelli, Sergei Grimayev, Elian Graneth
2004 – Rotislav Olesz – Adam Pirreault, Scott Lehman, Chain Painchaud, Nikita Nikilin, Peter Guggisberg, Petri Kontiola

That’s the #7 pick. Essentially the same bounty for the #2 & #11? Ummm… no

to be clear, only the 46, 76 would be of any value, looking at that list only Erhoff, Hedja and Dackell add any value after the first two picks (as NHL’ers). So stastically you’d be kinda fucked for taking that deal.