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Both teams decline the Dobson trade. It's terrible value for the Isles - Addison's ceiling would probably *be* Dobson, and the pick is in the mid 20s. On Minnesota's side, while I think they'd be happy with the player, the cap just works against them - they've got anywhere from 3-5 forward spots to replace, plus Filip Gustavsson's an RFA as well as Addison, and they've only got $9M to spend. I think they'd rather bridge Addison at $1.5-2M and keep the 1st than spend almost half their cap space on Dobson.
And keeping Dobson means you can spend that $4M on Ghost instead on buying Josh Bailey out, keeping the 2nd rounder, and finding someone in the $1.5-2M AAV range to take over RD3 instead.