Quoting: Saskleaf
Not good for the avs in my opinion. Don't think the difference between Korp and Francouz is Graves.
Quoting: DirtyDangle
id do that after the expansion draft. before makes it complicated.
Avs would readily accept this trade. Korpisalo would really solidify our goalie tandem in a big way this season, and possibly beyond as well.
Yes, the expansion draft is tricky, but the worst that would happen is that Seattle would take Korpisalo instead of Graves, so we'd be no worse off, but in the meantime our goaltending would be much more solidified. There's also a chance that Korpisalo outplays Grubauer in the playoffs, in which case you let Grubauer walk in UFA and protect Korpisalo who is the younger of the two.
That said, I doubt Columbus would do this trade. They will value Korpisalo higher than this, and they'd also likely expose Graves in the ExD, whereas with Korpisalo he would be protected.