Arizona Coyotes Shopping for More Draft Picks

The Arizona Coyotes are the worst team in the NHL and it's not a surprise to management. They have been dealing players out for months to accumulate more draft picks and don't expect that to slow down anytime soon. More trades are on the way in the desert.

Coyotes general manager Bill Armstrong recently admitted the team is trying to reload talent through the draft. He spoke with TSN's Pierre LeBrun and had this to say:

It’s easy to look at the standings and say, ‘The Coyotes, they suck. You know, there is a thought process here. We really deliberated hard as an organization about where we were going. We could have just re-loaded and gone at it and made the playoffs once every four years — if lucky, get by a first round, but most times get beat out. We had the conversation, ‘We want to be great here. We want to take the chance to be great.’ And the only way to do that is through the draft. We made that decision last summer that we were going to do it through the draft, and we weren’t going to sit on the fence. We were going to go all the way in

Shane Wright is expected to be a game changing #1 overall pick at the 2022 NHL entry draft and the Coyotes are setting themselves up to win the lottery.

Arizona currently has three first-round picks and five second-round picks at the 2022 draft and will certainly have a few more once it's all said and done. The team continues to talk to teams regarding a number of their players including two-time Stanley Cup champion Phil Kessel. Kessel should be able to fetch the Coyotes at least a second-round pick and a prospect. The likes of Shayne Gostisbehere, Antione Roussel, and Lawson Crouse are a few other players to watch as we creep closer to the roster freeze over Christmas.