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-First trade just has too many moving parts. You're swapping bad contracts (Armia & Ritchie), sending a veteran roster player for an RFA player (Dvorak & Hayton), and throwing in a good prospect, an okay one, a 1st and a 4th? I think Arizona declines because, at the end of the day, Ritchie is a better asset to them than Armia (10-4-14 in 24 GP after his trade last year) since he's in his walk year and can conceivably be a deadline flip. I think I'd rather have a 22 year old Barrett Hayton than 26 year old Christian Dvorak if I'm rebuilding, as well. I could only see it being a move if Bill Armstrong decides he *loves* Kapanen and the 2025 1st, but probably not.
-Easy pass from Ottawa, because of Hoffman's past there and because you're really not giving them anything of value to take that 2x$4.5M off your hands. Also, I wouldn't waste one of my three retention slots on retaining such a small amount, and certainly not if I were trading him to a team with enough cap space to take his deal on without retention, like the Senators have. It'd probably be at least a 2nd to get Hoffman out the door, maybe a 3rd if you retain fully.
-No chance Columbus would ever say yes to this trade, for several reasons. First, if they're moving Nyquist, it's to get more breathing room under the cap - which this doesn't, seeing as how Monahan actually makes *more* than Nyquist this year ($6.375M vs. $5.5M for Nyquist). Second, Nyquist is still an eminently serviceable player, who you could argue is slightly overpaid at best - he put up 18-35-53 in 82 GP last season, while Monahan limped (literally and figuratively) to 8-15-23 in 65 GP. Third, Monahan is coming off major hip surgery and hasn't shown if he's recovered yet, so you cannot really say he's worth much of anything until he shows he's good to go on the ice. The fact that you have Columbus giving up the cheaper, better player *and* throwing in a good, NHL-ready wing prospect in Chinakhov is not papered over by throwing back a 3rd rounder to them.