ottawa declines

good luck dumping Johnson and gudbranson in one trade, try taking bobby ryan back and maybe

If Hagelin signs with pittsburgh, I'll be convinced he was a double agent all along.

OTT declines the owner doesn’t want to spend money on Stone, Duchene, and Karlsson , so why would they spend that much money on 3 mediocre defensemen , a goalie prospect and a bottom 6’er?

Because they have to hit the cap floor (approx. $60m) and decent players, demanding $3m+ salaries, are not going to sign with them. They are going to have to take some salary dumps and this is just an attempt at one. They are probably going to end up taking dumps for picks, which makes sense with where the organization stands today. I also thew their dysfunctional owner a bone and added MacArthur's salary to PIT's LITR.

This trade adds a bit of speed to the Penguins for 2019-20 and cleans up their roster situation a lot. Ottawa gets 5 NHLer's for 1 for $3-4m more in salary. It also gives OTT some stop gap defensive depth with really only taking on 1.5 bad contracts (Jack Johnson & 1/2 Gud's which is only has 2 years left on it).

The only thing worse than Ottawa's forward roster situation next year is the defense roster situation. Plus, both with it being Ottawa... and with their ownership, a lot of FA players will not opt to go there is given offers from any other team. Therefore, Ottawa is either going to overpay $ to lower end FAs to get them to sign, or they are going to have to trade for players already under contract who do not have the option of saying no. It's not going to be a pretty summer for Ottawa fans and moves that are made (signings/trades) to bring in NHL players are not going to "make sense" from the Ottawa fan point of view.

There is a good chance that the UFA's that they have (Lindberg, Gibbons, Nilsson) won't even resign with them.

That's the direction I am talking... They are going to need to trade for guys that are under contract, just be field an actual NHL roster.

the penguins aren't trading Gudbranson. I don't know why people keep trying to push that myth. He's going to stay on the penguins.