Byram- Lundell

This makes no sense for either team. No matter what happens with this trade, 5 years down the line one of these GMs would be fired because they traded away the better player. Makes no sense for either team. If you wanna get lundell, you gotta make the panthers better with an established player, think toews or landeskog if you want lundell. Obviously the panthers add there but it’s hard to see them trading lundell 1 for 1 for anybody.

Alright let me know when Lundell gets close to leading a Cup team in TOI as a 21 year old

FLA needs to shed cap, and teams have had to pay a real premium to offload salary this year. This isn’t an unbalanced trade

Lundell or Reinhart for Girard could end up making sense in different ways if FLA wanted to capitalize on their depth at F to fix their problems on defense.

As exceptional as Lundell is, he isn't the caliber of player that gets you Byram.

Lundell for byram is alot closer then girad for lundell.

I’m not saying it’s unbalanced, I’m saying it’s completely unrealistic. Let me put it like this. Cale makar was drafted 4th OA in 2017 and miro hieskanen was drafted 3rd overall that year. Now imagine one year after the draft, the Dallas GM calls up sakic and offers him miro and a B level prospect for makar. Say sakic accepted that trade, would he still have a job in colorado even though he is one of the best GMs in the league? HELL NO! He would have been fired after makar won the calder. If you can find an example from the past 20 years where two teams swapped top prospects over a year after the draft, please let me know. It is simply not something that is done in the NHL as it’s the kind of move that almost always results in a firing for the losing team. You may still get a damn good player like miro but because you don’t have the best player, you lose the trade and your job. The value is there for both sides and I never said it wasn’t. What I said was the trade “makes no sense for either team”. Byram could be all this and lundell could be all that but at the end of the day, there will be a winner and a loser to this trade and it will haunt the losing franchise for years so that is why both teams say no.