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Nashville was trying to move up, and there were rumours they were dangling Askarov, but we don't really know what the details of any of the offers were.
If it was Askarov and their current first for a trade up, I'd have taken it as Montreal and settled on any of the 1RHDs... if you don't get Reinbacher, you can get Willander, and failing that, Axel Sandin Pelikka, who are all in the same talent level (ASL has, to me, a higher ceiling, but has kinks to his game).
But we don't know that this was the deal... maybe Nashville was trying to dangle Askarov without trading their first. Who knows? Whatever the case is, doesn't matter now.