Quoting: PuckPal
Teams have done it in the past and what it does is make other team strip their depth for players and once the leafs finish this trade at the draft it then becomes a value trade and the rest of the league are messed depth wise.
This is a bigger haul than the Sens got for Karlsson (Who's a pending UFA, but one of the top 3 dmen in the league).
If you think you can reset the market, giver, but blowing your prospect/draft pick wad on a second pairing guy with the thought that every other GM around the league is then going to up their asking price and refuse to sell any cheaper, is a dangerous game.
Quoting: Juice
What other deal stunted the market and was followed up in the offseason by those same two teams making another lopsided deal the other way?
I'm also curious as to an example of this happening?
I've said, and will continue to say that the best way to build a d-core is internally. Nashville, Anaheim, Chicago (while they were in their prime), LA, SJ, etc. have all built their cores by drafting well (Nashville added PK, and SJ added Karlsson, but even without him they are insanely talented). Let Liljegren and Sandin come up next year and show their stuff. Keeps it affordable, and allows those picks/prospects/depth players to be used for something better than Adam Larsson.