3/5 for me.

Good: Trade for David Rittich is new and interesting for me. Limited North American hockey, but would be a high risk, high reward type player.
Roussel, Shore, Heatherington, Dickinson, Elie, and Ully`s contracts all look good and about right.
Signing Brooks Orpik (part 1 of 2)
Finally, the young F are getting some playing time

Bad: The lines. Top line is dead right...after that I`m not so sure. Hanzal will more than likely not be able to start the year. Heatherington should be playing in the lineup or not in the NHL roster at all, the young D need to play. Roussel - Faksa - Pitlick line was a third line (sometimes a second line) not a fourth line.
Reto Berra?
Brooks Orpik playing over some prospects (part 2 of 2)
Janmark and John's contracts are a little off. Janmark is probably 5 years (like u have) but $4-4.5M and Johns is more 3 years $2-2.5M

Unsure: I like the trade to get Nyquist but in order to do that, U needed the picks from Vegas. Spezza is a piece going to Vegas. Keep in mind Spezza has a NMC (Vegas is nice so he'd probably waive it) and Vegas has to accept the trade. In the end, I don't know if this would happen. I like it, but too many ifs and maybes.

Overall, not bad. Some adjustments needed but I could live with it. I'm enjoying the series so far.

I'm not too focused on the lines...just the pieces. Also Berra is just depth in case Rittich gets off to a rough start

Fair, but I'm still a unsure about the Nyquist trade actually working. Would you then have Berra on a two-way contract? I know CapFriendly doesn't have that as an option but just curious. Dallas does have some decent Goalie prospects in Bow, Point and Oettinger so I like how it is only for a year and Rittich is only two.

I say this as a Wings fan, you overpaid for Nyquist. He has one year left and if you look at the Grabner and Marcus Johansson trades, he's worth about a 2nd and a 3rd/prospect. Also wings are trying to free up roster spots for the younger players. Hintz and a 2nd should do the trick. Also Nyquist is very dependent on his line mates. He needs to be with somebody who is an excellent passer (like Zetterberg or Vanek) and a speedy grinder (Bertuzzi or Helm), other wise he disappears. I could see him playing well with Spezza. Vegas isn't going to be moving picks especially for Spezza (they gave up a lot for Tatar). I also wouldn't give up on Spezza, it might be that he just didn't play well for Hitchcock. Just look at how Eric Staal played for Bill Peter's compared to Bruce Boudreau.

Wings take this deal all day.