Caps can do better. Burakovsky for Poolparty. Bura a better fit to play with McDavid because they meshed together as juniors. Johnson contract is hellhole. Nobody wants it. Bjustad is slow going on a team built for speed. Oilers trying to dump D's for forwards. None of this trade makes sense for EDM.

I don't disagree that someone else can do better but the rumored price is a 3rd liner for JP so I wouldn't say it doesn't make any sense. Rust instead of Bjugstad would give them some more speed at least. Does that make it any better in your mind? All I've really read regarding Sekera makes it sound like he's also just a cap dump so my thinking was that they get a still pretty young player than fits the rumored return they're looking for JP and swapped bad contracts.

Rust makes more sense, he has good wheels. Johnson is a no go. I think Caps and or others will make a more attractive offer.