O’Rourke would have to be someone else, like Marat Khusnutdinov

Appreciate the suggestion. MN obviously doesn't consider that, but that's helpful feedback thank you.

I think the Wahlstrom trade is fair however islanders would not be interested in trading him and with what comes back. Addison is basically Dobson and islanders rather bring back Mayfield or a similar cheaper player than him for the 3rd pairing. Islanders have been trading prospects so I don't think they'd be interested in trading for any. Also, I doubt they are even ready to move on from Wahlstrom yet. Wild most likely have to look elsewhere. They could look into other 1st rd talents that may need a fresh start with a low cap hit like they did with Sam Steel.

Yeah fair point on the utility of Addison. Wasn't sure if Isles were considering trading Wahlstrom or not (or what they'd want back if they were to). Been seeing a lot of proposals involving him, so figured I'd throw out one.

Don't agree with your logic on them not having interest in prospects due to them previously trading some away. That's typically circumstantial on a trade-by-trade basis, and doesn't hold up to enough sound reasoning for my taste. But to each their own on that take.

And yeah you can certainly go for the Steel types, or you can try to look go one level beyond that. Sort of up to preference and tolerance for price. In this case, I obviously went for the latter. Sort of a get what you pay for kinda thing on that.