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Kassian is a better face puncher, but he's more than twice the cap hit and has an extra year. Not equal at all, Ottawa would be better just running out the clock with Watson. He'll be a good mentor for Kelly and Kastelic, who are going to hold that type of 4th line role for the Sens in the future. If Kassian was at 50% retained or Ottawa was getting like a 2nd I'd consider that swap, but straight up Ottawa is giving up flexibility for no meaningful on ice improvement