Reality

Be a bad move trading Debrusk for a 38 year old declining rental.

I'm not sure they are going to get much better for him tbh. I know he has some value but it's not the best. Gio could help improve the Defense and eat up big minutes which might be what they need to get over the hump, for this year.

The issue with DeBrusk is that there’s not a defined market for him. A rebuilding team with current cap space and veterans to sell probably isn’t going to want to extend him a QO approaching $5 mil so he has less value to them. A contender looking to trade one change of scenery guy for another is gonna be just as tight to the cap as the Bs so it would have to either be dollar for dollar or need a 3rd team to get picks in exchange for taking $ on.

I think that he gets moved, but I couldn’t guess where and if you told me he ends up playing for the Bs the rest of the year then walking as a UFA it wouldn’t shock me. Not likely but if Sweeney looks around and doesn’t find a deal that makes the team better this year then he may just hold on to him. It opens up a whole different can of worms but what are the other options?

This but instead it's Marc Staal instead... Sweeney you genius!