Once a Kings Fan Too
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All of these trades are hideously negative for Anaheim.
Ristolainen is worth somewhere around a first-round pick plus, in isolation, and we don't need either Thompson or the seventh. Kase plus the third is about right, but we're not trading Ondrej, and we're not trading this year's first due to the possibility that our fan hopes and expectations for this team don't come to fruition.
Trading Max Jones for that garbage is absurd.
Trading Larsson for Johnson and a second is undervaluing both Larsson and the relief Pittsburgh would be getting for escaping Johnson's contract. Rowney for Johnson and the second is about right, or Larsson and a fourth-round pick for Johnson, an A-prospect RD like Addison or Marino and a first would be about right. I don't think Pittsburgh makes either of those trades.
Sherwood has a higher upside than Brown, not to mention the fact that he's already a better player, so no thanks on the last idea.