This team is not better

Cirelli isn’t a better Centre than Monahan. I’d rather have Monahan and resign Brodie instead of Cirelli and dumba any day of the week.

Im not saying the Wild wouldn’t do this, but I wouldn’t. Ek is off limits. While he doesn’t have Monahan’s offensive gifts, I think a team has a much better chance to win the Cup with Ek, than with Monahan. I could live with having both, however.
If needs are met both ways, I could live with a Dumba/Monahan trade, but only after I turned over every other possible rock. It makes some sense to me because both play premium positions, both have similar contract situations, and (IMO) both offer very similar impact value-to-their-teams-wise. Neither is a complete player, but I would argue Dumba’s defense and grit are miles ahead of Monahan’s and i think this is enough to make up for the C position being more valuable than the RHD position.