Possible Caps Trades

Every single one of these trades are horrendous for the Caps except the PHI trade.

Sandin>Provorov let alone throwing in a 2nd.
Strome is a mediocre middle 6 center, you're giving up a 1st and the best goalie in the AHL and potential future great NHLr in Stevenson.
Mantha>Crouse let alone throwing in a 2nd.
Caps are giving up a 1st and a good middle 6 wingers for 2 bottom 6 wingers in Stenlund and Luostarinen?

I would certainly think about trading Strome for that return

Only problem I’d see is that the 1st isn’t until 2026

It's a steal for ANA for Stevenson alone. Kid is going to be great.

sandin is a good young defensemen but provorov has more offensive skill and is still sorta young

Strome currently has 20 points on the season and the ducks are one of the very few teams that have the ability to take on most of Kuzy's contract. so the picks and Stevenson are there to sweeten the cap dump.

No, Mantha is not better than Crouse. Mantha has (11 goals, 5 assists) and Crouse has (16 goals, 7 assists). Crouse literally has as many goals than Mantha has points this season. Crouse is 26 and Mantha is 30. Crouse is a younger, cheaper and more offensively talented player who's just starting to find his game.

And the Florida trade is trading 2 middle six wingers with low point totals and poor play this season for 2 bottom six wingers with more points to strengthen our depth/ 4th line.

Would do the Frost deal in a heartbeat but hard hard hard passes on the rest of them.

This teams biggest problem is scoring and a lack of elite talent, especially at forward. I do not see them making any significant moves unless they result in an elite scorer making their way to DC. Ryan Strome, Crouse, Luostorianen are all fine players but are not elite scorers (that's even before getting into what you have as the returns for these guys). I don't even see a guy like Lindholm being a target for them for the same reason. Good 2c, probably even on a contender, but he's been an elite scorer exactly once in his career and that was when he was playing between at the time probably 2 of the 5 best offensive players in the league.

I don't really see any in-season additions that make that much sense unless someone shakes loose that wasn't expected. Does OTT move on from someone like Batherson? BUF from Cozens/Middlestadt/Tuch? PHI from Konecny? STL from Thomas or Kyrou? I highly doubt it, and even if they did I'm not sure the Caps would be able to meet the asking price, but those are the only types of guys I can see them being truly interested in. Otherwise, just wait until UFA when you can offer Nylander or Reinhart an absolute boatload of cash.