Based on much Debate

Regardless of trade value and assuming these moves work, move Klefbom to LTIR and sign Tatar.

Hyman - McDavid - Puljujarvi
Tatar - Drai - Yamamoto
Foegele - Nuge - Brown

That's a very good top 9 and would turn a rather poor Holland off-season into a much better one.

Trust me you don’t want Jordie Benn

and that's a pretty solid NO from OTT...
You want C.Brown, we want Yamamoto AND Puljujärvi

Ah the Koskinen debate…. Well you all know where I stand. Koskinen is meh, but overpaid. He needs to go. He makes a total of 4.5M for 1 year, and is a backup. Down below is his stats as an NHL goalie….. as you can see, he has never been the best NHL goalie, but he has been okay. Yes, our fan base is one of the worst, but there is a time that we need to win, and our time is now. We need a good starter. If we can get that, then I would have to say that we will be a good team this year. Comparing him to starters like Markstrom, Ullmark, etc is not fair, because he is simply not as good as they are, also, they played on way worse teams then Koskinen has. That will play with your stats a lot in my opinion, which is another reason why it’s not fair to compare. For example John Gibson, he has bad stats, because he plays on Anaheim, even though he is a top 5 goalie in the league in my opinion. Given Koskinen’s last 4 years, I think his 2019-2020 SV% was a fluke, because he has never been that good since. Anyway, goalies are voodoo, most will play good one game, and not so good the next. But is that the case for old Mikko…. I don’t know. He is okay, but you can’t say he is underrated, and you definitely can’t say he is anything other than an okay overpaid backup goalie.


2010-2011: NYI: 4GP, 2W, 1L, 4.33GAA, .873SV%
2018-2019: EDM: 55GP, 25W, 21L, 6OTL, 2.93GAA, .906SV%
2019-2020: EDM: 38GP, 18W, 13L, 3OTL, 2.75GAA, .917SV%
2020-2021: EDM: 26GP, 13W, 13L, 3.17GAA, .899SV%

To make this trade for Connor Brown worthwhile for Ottawa:


1. Turn the 2023 1st into a 2022 1st.

2. Swap out Lavoie for Yamamoto.


Those are the minimum requirements for a Connor Brown trade.

He's highly valued in our nation's capital