Why MTL consider this ? Gallagher isn’t going anywhere and at this point in a cap space era, I rather have Danault at 5M than Kuzy at ~7.8M when we want Suzuki and Kotkaniemi to play 1C 2C

Idk. My team (the Caps) have put themselves in a corner. I'm really pissed at the roster building going on in DC. Cap issues from hell...wasting the last year's of Ovi and Nicky. We can't win faceoffs, Kuzy is a POS and we STILL didn't draft a RHD this year. Just throwing ideas out there. :P

We already have Armia who’s skilled but lazy, we don’t want another player like that xD

Oof. As a caps fan this is a god awful trade. The Tanev signing is also garbage. We've got Fehervary and Alexeyev coming up. No reason to overpay for another defensemen with Vrana and Ovi needing contracts in 2021. The only thing I agree with here is signing Lundqvist. I saw on another comment that you don't like how the C's don't win face-offs. Id say move Kuzy to wing, Eller 2C, then move McMichael to 3C. I also believe that caps need to move Panik and his 2.75 mil cap hit. Sprong just signed a 2 year deal that is much cheaper, and he can contribute just as much as Panik.

McMichael isn’t NHL ready

That very well may be true. But if he performs well during the 8? game trial, I can see them having him stay up the rest of the season.