I’m not sure I understand this from Pittsburgh’s perspective.

After this trade Pittsburgh is paying 4-5 mill to Dumoulin, Reilly, Matheson and Pettersson. All at LD. This combined with Riikola still under contract, and POJ ready for the NHL.

Pittsburgh gets significantly weaker at center and now has to begin the 3c search all over again as Jeff Carter has only 1 year left.

All in all this is not good management for pittsburgh, who also cannot afford to move draft picks at this time.

Blueger will also not sign with you for that little. Not close.

I've seen a few of these with Morgan Rielly to Pittsburgh. I do not understand that.

I think you could get more for Reilly elsewhere. However if that trade did happen, I’d imagine the pens definitely trade both Matheson and Pettersson while working on a long term extension with Reilly. They could replace both Blueger and the pick they lose easily in those trades.

I don't know how much you're getting for Matheson with his contract.

Don’t really need much. I’d be ok with Matheson and a 7th for a 7th just to get rid of his cap hit. It’s not like he wasn’t decent. I really don’t think he is a cap dump to where the pens would really have to pay to get rid of him. They just likely don’t get back much if anything for him outside of cap space.

I’d rather just have Matheson than trade him for nothing. He played really well

He was ok, but the cap space is more important and with Reilly in this scenario is a massive upgrade than Matheson could ever dream to be lol