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Look, Trouba and Nylander are wonderful players. Of the two, I actually hope we do go for Trouba to establish an ideal top pairing going forward. That said, these trades are extremely costly from a cap management perspective. In both, you are trading low cost, high value assets (excepting Simmonds who is an ideal UFA deadline rental) for a very high value player who is much more expensive.
Winnipeg needs more cost controlled NHL talent for their cap situation, so Hagg would actually be a really good piece for them to get back if they deal Trouba. Myers, however, still being a prospect in the AHL, is probably too speculative for them.
Whatever the Flyers do, they're probably keeping Myers out of any trade talks. They want to get him into the third pairing right-side D role come next season. I don't see how they are actually in the Nylander sweepstakes. That is likely all Toronto media and agent BS leaks to the press amounting to basically nonsense.