We still view Lundesteom highly on the team, we see no reason to move our young 3C, he'll be back. We would consider this a loss on our end.

It does open an opportunity to pick up a forward though, maybe it's Joseph, maybe it's Jarnkrok from the Leafs, maybe it's someone else.

Of note, Lindstrom is a natural C, his play suffers massively on the wing, so why would the sens want to acquire him with Stutzle, Norris, and Pinto already in the lineup? It would be a waste to have him at 4C.

I would do this, don't know if Anaheim would though.

Anaheim isn't going to do this just because he is out for 6 months, he still has years of good play left in him.

Or to Anaheim with a 3rd for Future considerations... Would rather trade kubalik for a pick though

Reason :

Kubalik is a pretty decent offensive player but look at the other Sens players, there won't be a lot of PP time available? Kubalik scored 17 of his 45 pts on the PP last season

Over the last 2 years, Kubalik has 51 ESP despite only missing 5 games. Joseph has 45 ES + PK pts despite missing 39 games...

So Joseph has a better scoring rate at ES (1.58 pts per 60 ES minutes vs 1.53 for Kubalik), is quite better defensively and is a TOP PK forward in the NHL.

What was Ottawa's weakness last season? 5v5, they finished 25th in GF%

Kubalik's contract (1 year vs 2.5 AAV) makes him attractive and would return a decent pick while clearing 2.5 AAV

Joseph's is a cap casualty (3 years vs 2.95 AAV) and would cost a decent pick to move