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I did a search, but could not find any matches. So perhaps this has not happened to anyone else.
Anyway, I simmed a full season (standard NHL career). And as I looked through the transaction reports, it looks like players are being traded to teams in exchange for draft picks already owned by the team trading away the player. And in some cases, the draft pick is used in more then one trade.
For example, the Flyers and the Sabres made a trade involving Wayne Simmonds, and the news headline/subject say:
"Flyers Trade Simmonds to Sabres for Simmonds"
Then in the article/message it say:
"Wayne Simmonds, RW, 25 to the Sabres
with: 3rd Round Draft Pick (Philadelphia), 2014 NHL Entry Draft joining the Flyers."
On the same day the Flyers also traded Justin Williams (who they had picked up earlier in the season), to the Sabres in exchange for the very same 3rd round pick.
In total there were a handful of trades following this pattern. All involving a single player and a single draft pick.
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