Land Landy plus setting up future D corps

Why would the Bruins trade Lauzon and then lose Clifton or Ritchie in the draft on top of him. Not to mention they'd have to protect Mac and thus expose someone else. This make zero sense. The only trades you would make are of someone you planned on protecting to open a slot for someone to move into protection or protected player for protected player. Trading an unprotected player for anything is stupid as you lose them and Seattle still gets to take someone else.

So Boston trades Lauzon for a fringe 4th liner and a pair of picks that have a 27% and 15% chance of playing at least 100 NHL games. Then they still have to lose an player in expansion (Ritchie, Zboril, Clifton) because SEA has to take someone. How does this deal make any sense for Boston? The trade itself is bad for Boston even without talking about expansion draft.

Easy Rangers decline. This draft is weak af, No point in trading up. Schneider carries about as much value as a prospect as most of the guys available at 9.

Which means the rest of the trade amounts to Schmidt + Lind for a 1st ....which is pretty funny tbh.

This draft isn't that weak. There's a drop off after 12. Kent Johnson, Mason McTavish, Fabian Lysell>Braden Schenider

Schmitt’s contract is a negative asset. Even beyond that, none of those guys are a 1st round pick better than Schneider, if they’re worth more than him at all