The Hawks trade isn't really good for them. Perlini isn't going to cost as much as Burakovsky, he's younger, and he was more productive in a smaller role while Caggiula was quite effective with Toews-Kane so he's more useful to the Hawks than Boyd would be.

Not a bad trade idea, just not quite right on the details.

Bura (24) 12g 13a 25 points 76 games (.33ppg)
Perlini(23). 14 g 7a 21 points 68 games (.31ppg)
Cagg (24) 12g 11a 23 points 55 games (.42ppg)
Boyd(25) 5g 15a 20 points 54 games (.37ppg) 4th minutes

I mean they all seem to be similar players. Bura actually was more productive and caggs is slightly more productive than boyd. (Played top line minutes)

bura is going to be more $$ but hawks can’t possibly use him worse than the caps. They had him playing 4th line minutes

The Habs trade makes a lot of sense for both teams but I’m not sure the Caps would trade a 2016 1st round pick for a 2014 7th round pick.

Perlini was .33 PPG on the Hawks and nearly .7 PPG when he was finally given a 3rd line 6 role instead of on the 4th. Maybe Burka could too but the price difference for the Hawks won't work - they'll want a younger player at half the cost if all else is even.

As for Caggiula, he had a .46 PPG with the Hawks and honestly it was hard to find players who worked well with Toews last season consistently, so I'm just not sure they'd be willing to mess with that. It wasn't really about the points, but about how he was able to do a lot of dirty work down low and in front of the net soToews did not have to do it. Caggiula has now proven to compliment high end players on two teams, even if he himself isn't producing a ton of points, whereas Boyd hasn't. So Idk why the Hawks would give up the proven to work with their guys and younger Caggiula. It doesn't make sense from their perspective.

Like I totally get why you'd think they'd be good swaps on paper but when you get down to the Hawks not wanting to pay more for slightly older players that they don't know will even work as well, it's not going to work.

We are thin at center and have too many lhd

Fair enough. I love all the moves they made last year (hawks) idk why they made the maatta trade but people said the same thing when they got strome