Awful deal for Ottawa

Not even close to enough for Brown.

1) If we gave that to get Connor Brown then I will personally give Holland the nastiest kiss ever.
2) Even as someone who is a Mike Smith fan I like the idea of trading him to Arizona, but that is a wild trade and very unnecessary. It's a low return for Mike Smith alone, who is not a on a bad contract, just a bad year. Add in a 3rd and a prospect and then I'd say that the future considerations better score 60 points next season. Lastly trading Klefbom is utterly unnecessary, he does not count against the cap. So that trade would not only take my kiss back from Holland, but I would probably make him kiss my fist.
4) That Husso contract is very 50/50. He way too young with a rather small sample size for us to be able to legitimately say he's worth it. He hasn't been stellar all season. I'd give him $2.5M over 2 years, otherwise let some other team get too excited about Husso and fork over a ton of money.
5) Kane is exactly what we need. The price tag is fine but we need to lock him up for 2-3 years, nothing longer as I understand his personal life is concerning, but he has "kept his nose clean" so-to-speak since joining Edmonton.

Getting rid of Klefbom's contract would help Edmonton get out of LTIR for the year, so they can actually accrue cap space ahead of the deadline. Being stuck in LTIR all year again will prevent that for another year, so imo it's worth looking to offload his contract. And getting rid of Smith is a necessity imo, would be hard to run a Smith/Skinner combo next year.

Point is fairly taken about C. Brown, and the return would clearly need to be adjusted.

TY all for the feedback

True.

I dunno about Smith, and the reason for that is because I became a massive Mike Smith fan last year, and everybody ignored him, so I said well they'll see this time and lo and behold he's having quite the offseason. I personally believe Koskinen and Smith are an underrated duo, they can't steal games but they rarely sell them. But with that said I recognize this season will be the last I see of at least one of them (and I do love Skinner so it's not all bad). I never made it into the NHL because I didn't have the money to take lessons and all of the hockey kids in my school were rich bullies. But I always stayed close to hockey, and a couple of months ago I realized if I was an NHL goalie that based on how I play and act in my floor hockey league I would be like Mike Smith. I am a very passionate player like Mike Smith, so I just hate to see him go out this way. What I am saying is, please acknowledge that the Koski-Smith duo isn't nearly as bad as people love to say, and I can tell you that as someone who watches them almost as much as anybody else, but also acknowledge that I am biased towards them, so take what you will.

P.S., just read your username and I will definitely use that someday.