Quite literally, 0 of those teams accept those trades. You’re heavily overvaluing those players.

Steeves is a 24 year old who's only played 7 NHL games in his career and will be waiver eligible next year. Washington could just as easily call up Alex Limoges or an equivalent player if they wanted to acquire an AHLer instead of paying a 3rd rounder, and Steeves wouldn't have an NHL spot even as a scratch behind Miroshichenko and Sgarbossa who have already proven themselves at the NHL level. The Caps would pass here and find a different young-ish AHLer to sign in free agency.

As much as the Isles would probably benefit from a cheap RD3 behind Dobson and Pulock, they are stuck with Mayfield in that spot for the next six years, so zero chance that trade happens.

If the Caps wanted a guy like Steeves to throw a bone to Hershey they would do what they did like 4 times last summer and just sign AHL all-stars (Phillips, Limoges, Dube, Snively) to NHL deals not waste a 3rd rounder

So I'll say this once for all of you here because you all seem to have done the same thing. Made a call on these guys without having seen them play. I watched about 40-50 Marlies games this year. I watch about 40-50 Marlies games every year. I know what they have done there and what they can do and what they cannot. If you want to engage me in asking about that. I'll answer. If you just want to fire blanket one line condemnations based on out of date third party reporting based on their draft year or video game ratings, I'll ignore you. Your choice.