Canes decline

Sens decline. I'd rather just hold Norris and he bounces back and increases his value, or he sits on LTIR.

Norris won't be on LTIR, and at least this trade brings back a great 3rd liner and cap flexibility going forward. If it's a precursor move to doing a Chychrun/Ehlers swap I see it as a net gain. If Chychrun is sent out with only picks coming back then don't make this move.

If they get Ehlers I could see it.

so the penguins take on 3 really bad contracts and get nothing back for it?

I mean Dubois I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole. He'll never be happy here anyway so I can only imagine the toxicity that will entail.

Norris contract is nothing but a head ache. Every year he's on IR due to his shoulder and you can never use that massive cap hit of his to build a real team knowing he'll just be back next year messing up the cap again. Why even go through that head ache.
Both Smith and Acciari's contracts end this year....stop extending the pain. There is no need to.

The CAR trade is the only one here that is "reasonable" but that depends on what other options we have to get rid of Rakell. If this is the only option I would consider it. But I think it's a crap deal either way.
I'd really like to trade Rakell for Elvis in CBJ and let him back up Blom