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Sorry.... be logically this trade does nothing for Columbus... we have no reason to move Korpisalo or Merzlinkis at this point. Kerfoot is a good 3rd line center and yes is an upgrade over Nash... that being said Nash is a 4th liner, Jenner, Wennberg, and PLD are 1-3, and sorry to say this, but Kerfoot isn’t much of an upgrade on either of them.
Now for the cap side of things Anderson is 5 mil, Korpisalo is 2.8, that’s a difference of 2.2 mil then adding onto the fact that you want us to retain 50k(I feel like you meant 500k) isn’t a huge impact but it is cap space. Then there’s also true small difference of about a mil (with retention) between Nash and Kerfoot. So that’s about an extra 3.5 on the cap (give or take a little). Columbus just isn’t in a position to add cap with players like PLD, Gavrikov and Anderson still needing to be signed.
All in all this trade doesn’t do much for Columbus besides give us another 3rd line center, a rental goalie and some rather low end draft picks. Not something Columbus seems to be interested in at this point.