Interesting deal, although OTT has a goalie prospect in Gustafsson that looks promising. Question, would you rather keep Nylander and move Reinhart instead? I know Reinhart is good with Eichel but it's Eichel most guys would see a production increase with him. Swapping them would save a lot of cap space.

I agree with all you said, my thoughts were that Ottawa is rebuilding and wants to re-make a core so I went with the younger cheaper option as their owner is pretty cheap. With goalie prospects you never know so to have a extra that might be better than what you already have in the cupboard would not hurt. Scandella is a decent all round defencemen that doesn't have a huge hit to the cap and can play the minutes of EK leaving and the pick with Nylander are the gems in this deal. I tried more to look at it from both sides of the deal and I think they would prefer Nylander. But I'm no GM so who knows.