Well, anything we can do to help the Sens reach the cap floor...Wait, what?!?!? Hell no!!! Brown by himself is worth a 3rd.

LA needs to resign 4 defensemen in a year, they are not going to want to also move Martinez

The point is trying to move the Zaitsev deal is putting in value so the team will take on that bad contract, hence Brown and Zaitsev for a third. Deals to help both teams are how trades work. LA is rebuilding, a chance to move a dman in his prime for a speedy top 6 forward no where near his prime yet is a good deal to me.

It's only a bad contact if the player isn't worth it. Seriously watch the games man. The big factor here is Gardiner who, despite all of his screw ups, is an analytics darling. That crowd (I'm talking to you Adam Wilde) basically promoted the narrative that Zaitsev sucks because well if Zaitsev sucks, then Gardiner must be good. Funny how the moment Zaitsev was able to ditch Gardnier as a partner his season turned around wasn't it?

Hey now, as a SDP listener i must object to your slanderous accusations of Adam Wilde, which is weird because as an Oilers fan i normally hate his guts.

Wilde knows Gardiner is a hot button topic with Leaf fans. He has a choice he can hammer him for his mistakes, but everyone already does that. So he defends the hell out of him by cherry picking the analytics and blames all the pairs shortcomings on Zaitsev. If you are buying what he is selling there, just remember, he doesn't believe it himself and you've been played.

Also i really wanted to use the words slanderous accusations in a sentence