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I think you need to throw more sweetening in there to get Arizona to bite. Zucker and Kessel are analogous in this trade as older wingers with high AAVs - arguably, Arizona gets a worse asset considering Zucker has more term (even at a lower AAV, Zucker's salary is higher this year + he's got another year of term at $5.5AAV/$5.2 actual cash.) With Matheson, I get that he becomes expendable once Chychrun shows up, but I think you'd be better off flipping him (or one of the other LD making $4M+) somewhere else instead of watering down your return here. Matheson is 28 and signed for 4 more years after this one at $4.875M, he's not a guy that moves the needle for Arizona in terms of what they're looking for.
I think the biggest issue is that Arizona is trading guys because they're trying to be cheap as hell while still being cap compliant, and this goes against that. There are plenty of Zucker-like contracts that the Coyotes can take on with picks attached instead, while getting a Poulin+1+2++ package for Chychurn - alone. Adding Crouse means you'd have to add more.