Matt Benning is fine, but he isn't worth taking Khaira, Chiasson and Russell. Sens don't have room for all these guys on the roster, and basically no team in the league can afford to just add 4 contracts to the 50 contract limit.

The issue with this trade is that it's like "here, take our two overpaid players and we'll pay you with two more crappy players". It's not just you; every Edmonton fan on here thinks they can pawn off all of this trash with more and more and more trash.

On the back end, the Sens already have 6 guys that are NHL players to some degree (Chabot, Zub, Zaitsev, Wolanin, Jaros and Rielly), there's a good chance they re-sign Borowiecki making it 7, and they have 4 prospects expected to push sooner rather than later (Brannstrom, Lajoie, Alsing and Thomson). That makes for 11 guys, all of whom they'd rather play over an overpaid Russell and Benning, who's a third pairing guy at best (although I'd personally take either over Zaitsev; still that's 10 other guys). Up front, it's very much the exact same situation. They don't need a 4th liner like Khaira, they have like 6 of those already and a bunch of prospects they'd rather give time to. There's nothing in this for Ottawa, or any team you want to give your expensive trash to.

If desperate enough to get rid of them sell off separately. Each of them carry a specialty to a team. Jj is solid on pk. Chiasson solid on pp. Russell gets zero respect on this site but is an amazing depth d that plays both sides and one of the best shot blockers. Benning is a good young rd that has a very underrated impressive career numbers.

Amen!