So you are telling me, you would rather trade Nurse over Larsson? Are you secretly a Devil's fan? Nurse for those two is nothing. He is by far one of the best players on the team and if a little more offense, the best defenseman.

Nurse has offense, he just doesn't get the same PP opportunities as other top defensemen. If you look at 5v5 scoring over the past 2+ years (since the beginning of 2017-18), you'll see that Nurse is tied for 9th in the league for defensemen over that period - and just 1 point out of 8th. At 24 - just coming into his prime - I'm not trading him unless an elite forward talent of similar age is coming back.

http://naturalstattrick.com/playerteams.php?fromseason=20172018&thruseason=20192020&stype=2&sit=5v5&score=all&stdoi=std&rate=n&team=ALL&pos=D&loc=B&toi=0&gpfilt=none&fd=&td=&tgp=410&lines=single&draftteam=ALL

Regarding Russell: after his July 1st bonus is paid, he is owed just $1.5M for the final year of his contract, despite the $4M cap hit. There are teams that will be interested... and Russell is having his best season in recent memory right now, so it's not like he's a cap dump anyhow. If Russell can continue his current level of play I'm not sure I'd want to trade him anyhow - he's doing that well.

I do agree. He is playing much better as of late and he would most likely be a bubble player to trade or keep.