Quoting: ht42
What about the Chiarot, the Kulak and the Lehkonen trades ?
All of theses trades are biased.
Those players actually have value. Florida was/ still is in a desperate win now mode and Zito seems to be paying alot for players. Lehkonen is young and was under team control, he's a pretty good player and he excelled with Colorado. Kulak is a good steady defenceman, he was cheap and he only cost a second with retention, not much of an overpay. That said they all got more than I expected. Also teams tend to pay more for defencemen at the deadline.
Dadonov is the only one there close to value and he likely gets a second with retention but likely not to Detroit. They have too many forwards as it is and more itching to get into the line up.
Seattle just paid a third and a fourth for a winger who just put up 28 goals with not a great team around him. He is younger than Armia and I would say better defensively although I'm not totally sure on that. Armia put up 14 points last year so I don't see Seattle paying anything, or any team for that matter for 3 years of Armia. Also Seattle has a pretty full forward corps.
You then traded a career back up goalie to a team with too many goals right now, all of which are younger. He might be lucky to return a third round pick but a first is ridiculous, especially to a team with more than enough goalies.
Now thaw Tkachuk and Gaudreau are gone, Calgary doesn't really have a need to dump Monohan and they are better off hoping he rebounds than paying to get rid of him. Montreal maybe paid too much for Dvorak but I don't see any other team paying that for him.
Chicago might take Hoffman for that though.