What in tarnation
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My thoughts on this...
TOR trade - needs a little work. Pionk is their only long time investment. Those picks are relatively low and contenders don't really have use for them, Claesson is most likely the 7th D in the team and Kreider likely walks after the season since TOR has no money to re-sign him. Furthermore knowing how much some TOR fans like Nylander, they're not gonna move him unless they get a solid first pair RHD.
OTT trade - not really. Melnyk is just cheap. He's not going to take $9M in salary to the team, especially when they're not getting any assets that would help their rebuilding process.
CHI trade - I guess it works. It depends really on whether they have a slot for him or not (ergo do they move Anisimov or other forwards from the team)
EDM trade - when I first saw, I thought that nope, they're not gonna move eighth overall pick for that. But that move really solves some of their issues. The question is that can they afford it - hence I think that If NYR takes one of their bad contracts (Sekera or Russell for example), then they sure would do it.
MIN trade - nah. Zucker's worth a first. Andersson's nice, but he's not that nice that they'd take a bad cap dump, albeit his salary is retained. If you take the 2nd round pick from that trade, then they'd probably take it.