I think Johnsson and Kapanen are somewhat underpaid for multi year deals.

I personally like Pesce but would not trade away Kadri for him. Kadri is just too good and such an amazing value. I think trading johnsson or (more likely) Kapanen for him is better. Have plenty of good rw, but lack LW so keep johnsson over Kapanen. Even though I like Kap as the much better player.

But I like the idea of using Ottawa’s injured guys to trade Zaitzev. Iff they’re not insured though. If Melnyk isn’t actually paying for the contracts, they have zero motivation to move them when could use them to hit the cap floor.