then you wouldnt have gotten the same high picks from 2018-now, might not have gotten brady, probably wouldnt have gotten sanderson

It was hardly a fire sale, when a non playoff team trades their unsignable upcoming UFAs....Karlsson, Stone, Duchene, Pageau. I don't know folks were so angry with Ottawa's management and ownership. Trading some players that would not be resigned and would never live to their new contracts was a wise decision.

I think you should be more concerned with how the Senators traded for Duchene. It's weird, they were right about how much better he is than Turris, considering Turris fell off a massive cliff after leaving Ottawa, but I will never understand why they thought Duchene was what they needed to put them over the top. If I remember correctly, they needed more defensive depth and another scoring winger more than an upgrade at center.

Here was their line-up:

Hoffman-Turris-Stone
MacArthur (after multiple concussions)-Brassard-Ryan
Dzingel-Pageau-Burrows
Pyatt-Smith-Wingels
Kelly, Stalberg

Methot-Karlsson
Phaneuf-Ceci
Borowiecki-Wideman
Harpur, Claesson

Anderson
Hammond
Condon

Yeah, that lineup screams 2nd line LW, better bottom-6 forwards, and one more defensive upgrade. I wouldn't look at that lineup and think "we need to upgrade Turris to Duchene".