the way Jarventie and Smejkal, Jiri are playing in the preseason they going to ,make the opening night roster thus no baily, and i see Kubalik going before Joseph

Enough cap to buy a used car

Why trade both when that isn't needed. Bailey is a bust and shouldn't be signed.

Bailey would be a serviceable 3rd or 4th line guy, he was just overpaid in NYI.

Which preseason games did you watch, because I sure didn't see it. Players like Smejlik, Jarventie and MacEwen deserve a spot over him with Kastlic.

I'd much much rather have Brännström than Rutta, so no.

And I'm not even trading Joseph anyway, I am trading Kubalik instead


Here's the list of non-roster forwards who have outplayed him so far in camp (and we can't use the veteran don't need to work hard in TC excuse as he's on a PTO)

Roby Jarventie
Ridly Greig
Jiri Smejkal
Egor Sokolov
Matthew Highmore

Less obvious but still better :

Parker Kelly
Angus Crookshank
Zack Ostapchuk
Cole Reinhardt

Sometimes players fall off a cliff and are barely NHL level at some point. Nick Holden was good for Ottawa in 2021-22 but fell off a cliff and was barely NHL level in 2022-23. He retired before this season.

You dont get assets for a bust and a 3M cap dump

And both are better than Rutta

lol there's still people who refer to Brannstrom as a bust