Pending league approval the Philadelphia has traded away their two 1st round Draft picks (6&14) to acquire 2 OTHL veteran defencemen. Older and wiser management has declined to name names, which team they’re coming from and even which Conference.
GM Siemsen:
“We were exploring the option to trade for one defenceman from said team, but when we received the offer involving both picks on our side we had to give it some very serious consideration. Trading both picks was not something we were planning or expecting to do.
We had been very excited about who we could get at #6 ... we already know which 3 guys are going with the top-3 picks ... after those guys we have a list of 3 players ... we would be happy to get any one of them into our system. With the 14th pick we had to explore a wider range of players, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see someone drafted earlier in the NHL draft drop to us there at 14.
But in the end we liked what was being offered to us, it would improve our defensive corps even further. Giving up the picks is a price we’re willing to pay”