Benn&Seguin

- A two way defenseman that likely wouldn't even have a place in our top-4 (Honka, Klingberg, Lindell, Heiskanen)
- A backup goalie, which the Stars can get cheap on the FA market
- A 1st round pick NEXT year
- A 5th round pick in 2020

All for one of the best players in the game?

I'm sorry, but this deal is ridiculous. Dallas has a log-jam at defense as it is and can get a backup through free agency. Sure, Grubauer might be better than the guys via FA, but the difference between him and the FA goalies is absolutely not worth losing one of the elite scorers in the game. This deal makes absolutely zero sense for Dallas.

And don't even get me started on the Benn deal. A 6th round pick, a worse defenseman than the one listed above, and a couple of picks in later drafts? Yeah, Dallas laughs at you and then hangs up the phone.

Whether or not the trade is fair, it does the Stars no good to trade Seguin for 3 1st Round Picks. Even if it's similar to Kessel deal, Seguin is better and more valuable than Kessel. Plus, the circumstances were different, Kessel needed to be traded, Seguin doesn't.

@jsanders, they can easily trade grubi for a first and you also forgot the 2018 first so that’s 3 first, a fifth, and 2nd round drafted d, and a top NCAA prospect

You compared both of your big trades to the Kessel trade. The thing that you forgot was that Kessel wanted out of Toronto, and more importantly Toronto wanted to get rid of Kessel. Neither of those are true of Benn/Seguin and Dallas.

... and Kessel is no Benn. One could argue a Kessel/Seguin comparison, but even there you probably go Seguin 99 times out of 100.

@biglite351 I totally agree with you but Dallas is not going to win the cup with the team they have let’s be honest, they don’t have enough depth. Benn and seguin are both going to want to win a cup and if they trade away benn and seguin then they can also trade away klingburg to a team such as colorado or soemthing.