As a Caps fan this makes no sense. We are just giving them junk, unless they really really like Eller.

At first I"m like, YEAH! Brassard has always been an offensively dependable player, and he's signed through next year. Chiasson just kind of appeared at the end of the summer, so it looks like you're paying almost nothing to trade a 3C for a 2C. Eller is two years younger, and has a couple fewer points. On the other hand, Brassard has played about 20% more minutes, and his 55% offensive zone start percentage is 9% higher than Eller's.
https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/b/brassde01.html
https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/e/ellerla01.html
Eller also has experience killing penalties. Does Brassard? I agree that it would take extra picks or prospects to peel Brassard away from another good team within the same conference. I'm just not sure that's a very good investment. On the other hand, I really like the idea of building forward depth beyond the top six, and this is a novel way of doing it. Bravo on identifying someone who might add some extra offense and help Connolly or whoever ends up on line three produce more offense.

Glad you can atleast get behind the idea. I have been calling for more offensive depth on this team for years. When it comes time to play the Penguins again in the playoffs they need a great third line. The top two lines on each team always cancel out or the Penguins top 6 beats the caps top 6. Need the 3rd line to be dynamic. Brassard with Burakovsky/Stephenson/Connolly adds alot of offensive depth to the team.

Plus in the horrible case either Backstrom (or Kuznetsov) goes down this is what your looking at a solid replacement in the top 6 instead of Lars Eller