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The Nylander-Laf trade is probably fair in terms of value (trading an expensive but very productive player for an ELC player with high upside), but the Rangers are unlikely to have the cap room to make that kind of deal. The bigger issue here is Georgiev and the contract you're giving him - why in the world would he sign 2x$1.25M when his QO is $2.65M? You're paying him less total over 2 seasons than he should be getting paid for one. He is *not* signing that deal.
I like Larsson & Tanev as players but taking on *both* those contracts is a bit much, Tanev especially. You're basically extending the Kerfoot cap hit for 2 extra years for a player without the offensive upside that Kerfoot brings. I also think Seattle would want a little more coming back than the two UFAs and a 3rd.
Mrazek is going to be tough to move without attaching an asset to him. Arizona is also a bad destination because taking him on goes against the type of cap dumps they usually go after - for example, Andrew Ladd was dumped with 2x$5.5M left on his deal but his actual payout was $8M in cash, not $11M, because his contract was front loaded. Mrazek's is backloaded - he has 2x$3.8M left but $8.6M in cash owed on a $7.6M hit. Someone will eat that cap, somewhere, but you're probably better off just buying him out and keeping whatever asset you'd have to unload for him at this point (penalty would be 4 years, $1.03M, $833K, $1.43M, $1.43M.)
Both teams decline that JGP-Muzzin trade. If I'm the Islanders, I'm worried about paying $5.6M for the next two years to a 33-year-old LD with concussion issues. If I'm the Leafs, I'm wary of paying $5M for the age 30-33 seasons of a 3rd line center when I already have 2 other Cs pulling close to 40 minutes a night for me.