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I understand the value of Tanev, but wow, just wow on that Buffalo trade. Mittlestadt just came off his best year, and is still young. Tanev is 33 and a 1 year rental. No matter how good you think Mittlestadt is, he just had a very good finish to the season; he might regress or he might improve. You don't just give that away for a 1 year rental, unless you have a cup window open and the player coming back is better than Tanev. Then, to top it off, you have picks going to Calgary? Wrong way on those picks there...
Vladar for a 3rd is optimistic. I've argued this before. Backup goalies who have gotten traded for a 3rd or better are almost all better than Vladar. A lot of the deals that were done were with salary retention or cap reasons. Yes, he is cheap, as all backups generally should be, but a sub .900 save % is not good, no matter how bad the team was in front of the guy.