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That Florida trade is egregiously bad. The whole reason the idea of them eating 4x$5M on Bob's contract came about is because they're in cap hell this season because the Keith Yandle & Scott Darling buyouts are costing a $6.575M cap hit this season - next year the Darling buyout penalty expires and the Yandle penalty drops to $1.24M, so they'll have more room to work with if they can get through this year.
This deal does none of that - you have them giving up Bob *with the full retention* AND sending away Anton Lundell after a 44-point rookie season, only to give them Lars Eller ($3.5M cap hit), Conor Sheary ($1.5M) plus Hendrix Lapierre and a 3rd. Lapierre is a decent prospect with nowhere near the ceiling of Lundell, and adding a 3rd doesn't make up for that value; on top of that, this deal winds up more or less cap neutral for Florida because they're taking in $5M of Eller & Sheary this year while retaining $5M on Bobrovsky. The dollars don't work and the ask is insane.