Why do all Devils' AGM have Johnsson for Arizona's 3rd? Makes no sense for Arizona. We aren't throwing away our picks. If anything, we are looking for more.

2 Things to this:

- You're not "throwing away" the pick when you're picking up a player you can insert into your line up. After all, you still need players to play for you.
- With inflated priced at the trade deadline you're probably going to be able to get more back than you spent in the first place.

With that logic New Jersey can just trade him away at the TDL. Also, we can get players in other ways, without giving up picks. We can probably even get players and picks at the same time.

Now, if you look at our depthchart up front we're in a situation where we have to much forwards and need to cut some - after all NJD and ARI are not in the same state of their respective rebuilds anymore. And to your 2nd point: Apparently ARI is looking for cheap forwards and Johnsson is just that. And yes, you might be able to get players without trading picks away but that doesn't necessarly mean that it's "unrealistic" or that it "doesn't make sense" to do so.

Our gm will trade Fiala elsewhere then. He's not waiting 3 drafts before getting a 1st round pick and it doesn't work that way

Possibly.. but is Fiala willing to sign „elsewhere“?

Yeah he will

I wouldn't call that price cheap. By cheap, I'd assume signings like Milos Keleman (that we signed) or Linus Johansson (who there are rumors about), who are FA. Also, Johnsson isn't young. He is 27. By young, it is players like McBain and Nathan Smith that are around U23.

I agree it isn't unrealistic, but it's safe to say it doesn't make sense.