Rejoint: juill. 2021
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Based on the comments I’m seeing here, neither of these guys are any good, so Ottawa loses by throwing in the draft pick.
By writing this I’m probably spending more time on this trade than it deserves, but if a prospect hasn’t made the team after a few years, most NHL teams will just let him go to give him a chance to try to catch on somewhere else, whether they get anything of value for him or not. Whether this is something unselfish they do as a favor to the player or just to get his contract off their books I don’t know, but I think that’s what’s happened here with Brown. They actually did get back a player they can use at the NHL level, even if only for one year, with a chance to extend him or trade him at the deadline if he does well, so that’s probably worth throwing in the conditional draft pick for. For the Blues I guess it’s primarily a salary dump and there’s not much chance Brown will play the 30 games needed for the Sens to keep the pick, but maybe they still see some potential for Brown.
One thing that does seem certain here is that Ottawa is no longer hoarding players named Brown.