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I don't hate the logic behind the Shattenkirk trade (Anaheim doesn't need multiple over-30 D on a rebuilding squad) I just think you need to give them more than the Press Box Grab Bag you gave them here. Steen is probably a bottom 6 forward at this point, Clifton is a 6/7th D, and two mid/late round picks aren't going to buy you Shattenkirk with full retention.
I think someone else could beat that Hague deal, but it's not horrible - gives VGK a bottom 6 forward who'll probably sign for under $1M while letting go a player they would probably have difficulty affording next season. They probably wind up rolling more Ben Hutton than they would like at LD3 next year, but having 6 D already signed to deals next season feels like the writing on the wall for Hague.
Grz would be solid as LD2 on the Islanders, just not sure how I feel about this package. Dufour made a big leap this season and the Isles need -some- young forwards in the system. I'd want to sleep on this one and see if there's something else we could configure that keeps Dufour in the org for now, but at the end of the day I wouldn't be furious at this trade if it happened IRL.
Kings would probably want to give you this year's 1st instead of next year's, but if that's agreeable I think it's fine. Reilly for a 3rd is CF Certified™, and DeBrusk for a pick in the 20s + a 4th rounder feels like okay value. I think if the Kings balk, there are other teams who would be happy to make this work.
NJ trade is tough - Pasta probably deserves a roster player, a prospect, and a 1st at least, which you have here. Wood's RFA rights are probably not that valuable to the Devils in this case, but I also think that adding in two 2nds (including 37th OA this season) tips it a little much. Maybe kick back a young forward to the Devils, or maybe do them the favor of taking Tomas Tatar off their hands instead of Miles Wood? Not sure how to even this one out - and if there's any deal that I think would make sense to mimic an NBA-style sign-and-trade, it would be this one - have the ink dry on Pasta's 8x$8.5M before you send him out the door to Jersey, just so they have that absolute guarantee of having him long-term.