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Ottawa shouldn’t be giving up guys like Norris and JBD is why, it doesn’t make sense for a rebuilding team to give up their only good young pieces at 2 important positions (C and right handed D). If they’d be willing to go for a collection of guys like Pinto, Brannstrom, Jarventie, Daccord, 10th/38th/41st overall, etc. and get the benefit of not having to take any cap back (Ottawa is one of only a handful of teams for which this is the case, 10mil is a LOT of money) then Ottawa would definitely be in. But like, any of Tkachuk, Norris, Batherson, Stutzle, Chabot, Sanderson, JBD, Gustavsson, and Sogaard should not be involved from Ottawa’s perspective. It’s a lot of protections for a guy like Eichel I know, but decimating our long term depth via selling the farm to bank on one injured guy who has never sniffed the playoffs isn’t exactly how you build a team from the ground up.