Hinno is a legitimate young top 6 forward, on a steal of a deal, ARZ wouldn't do that trade one for one, I wouldn't give Gardiner 5 years, and that bottom 4 will be a GA machine at best, Addison is an average at best defenseman at defending in the WHL (elite offensively, just not the best defensively) Gardiner and McDonagh are both misadventures in their own end at times, and MP is solid, but not good enough to carry all 3

"bottom four would be a GA machine" at least they'd be able to move the puck. Jack Johnson is a goals allowed machine who kills offense.

Schultz just isn't a fit for MTL.

omg a guy with a name became available............
Did everyone lose their heads and not remember how bad shattenkirk really is?

he's way way way way way better than Johnson.

but he didn't replace JJ now did he! No instead we have a down grade from Schultz to shattenkirk.

Maybe try comparing apples to apples instead of apples to bananas, which is what that is.

It's a down grade on the Right side. There is no way around that.