Quoting: Tarlam01
Who? MTL getting what they need. NSH getting what they want from Ekholm and Detroit getting some free assets
Unless I'm missing something on Norlinder, which it appears that I might be based on the other responses in this thread, NSH and DET both decline.
Glendening is worth a third, maybe more. Soderblom currently has higher upside than the average fifth given his size, hands and performance at the most recent WJC. I'd probably put his value at a third. While you shouldn't pay to get rid of Byron, it would cost at least second to do so. So you're short on value on the first two assets and probably fine on the last one. That still leaves you short on the deal. It's not massively short, but it's still a little short.
Nashville is getting a mid-late first rounder, a defenseman who looks like he might make the NHL (maybe even as an offensive second pair guy but also probably not), Soderblom as I mentioned above, and a guy in Lehkonen who are a dime a dozen in the FA market. The probability that they get anything that makes as big of a difference in the NHL as Ekholm is minimal. They need to rebuild, but they can get more for him. Generally when you have to add 4 players to pay for one, the values won't be there. 1 top pair dman is worth more than a 4th line forward, middling prospects and a late first rounder.
That's just my two cents.