Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy
these trades all suck
Trade 1. Hyman isn't worth our 2nd, Flames are in no position to help another team out with cap problems, and where would he play?
Trade 2. Hickey will literally be a cap liability before then end of the year, he cant be efficiently buried and has 3 years left, Kylington is in all ways better here. Valimaki might be healthy by playoffs too.
Trade 3. First Ottawa will never accept since they not only loose a 2nd but Brodie will more than likely walk since Sens don't need him and another team will offer way more than Melnyk. Secondly Brodie is far superior of a player and worth more than that
Hyman is more than worth our second, which, all things going well should essentially be a third. He doesn't have to pass Tkachuk or Gaudreau, if you took a gander at the post above you would see exactly where I would slot him in. That's not helping another team, that's taking a team in a pinch and improving our shallow right side,
Kylington is a liability in the defensive zone, he should be the first guy called up but should definitely be playing top minutes in the AHL to start the year, he is a poor mans TJ Brodie at this point, offensively he will always be better than Hickey, but it is wildly outlandish to say that Kylington is better in every way. When Valimaki is healthy Hickey sits in the press box, if Hickey were to be bought out in 2020 (once Brouwer is off the books) his cap hit would be 1.875 for one year and then 625K after that, or if he rides the pine until 2021 his buy out cap hit is 833K for 2 years, it's a more than palatable contract for a very bottom pairing d man that has just been passed on his teams depth charts.
I am starting to see a homer bias in point 3 here, to say that Brodie is far superior is inaccurate, the only reason that Brodie is going to play on the top pairing with Giordano is because the Flames can't trust him to anchor a pairing on his own and if you were to have him and Kylington on a bottom pairing you are hemming yourself in your own zone for 10-15 minutes a night. Contracts included, the difference between a good DeMelo and a slightly better Brodie is minuscule, Ottawa giving up a Dallas or Columbus second rounder would not effect them that much, they're likely acquiring more draft capital with Brodie at the deadline either way.