Bargain bin center shopping

Saw this trade in another thread, https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2250547, and I think it could make a lot of sense. Domi's game is better suited for the wing, but he would immediately become the best player that has produced at center on our roster. If he only costs us Johansson and, say, a later pick, I think that's worth considering. Domi is playing on the 4th line so I can't imagine he'd cost too much.

Johansen has been a weird player ever since arriving in Nashville. At the time he was traded, everyone considered him to be a near lock to be a career top line center but he has been more of a 2C for the Preds. I wouldn't touch his full $8M AAV contract, but if the Preds retained 20-30%, he becomes a lot more palatable.

Rask would almost have to go the other way to make the cap work. Rask has been playing very well this year but if I'm being honest I'm not expecting that to continue. This is assuming the pick is a late first.

Patrick is probably worth more to the Flyers than he'd return in a trade at this point and I think the safe move is for them to just hang onto him and see what he becomes. That being said, the Flyers are in a position to contend for a cup and they may not want to wait for Patrick. The Wild are in a better position to be patient with the talented center.

Dumba has been fantastic this year and losing him would really sting, but we have a ton of money tied up into our blue line, Addison looked very promising on the top pairing when he played, and while we will almost certainly protect 8 skaters in expansion to keep Dumba, it makes things a lot easier if we traded him and could go the 7-3-1 route. Philly needs help on the blue line and other fan bases have this perception that Dumba is horrendous defensively, but that has been far from the case this year. Dumba is having the best season in his own zone that I have seen and the scoring is starting to come again for him. Fletcher drafted Dumba 7th overall back in 2012 so there is probably some affinity there.