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Always better to separate your cap dumps from your impact acquisitions - including Bailey here drags down the overall compensation on this package since he's not a player that Chicago would have any interest in. As said above, it would also be worth getting the full retention here, since you're conceivably paying Chicago for the retention slot and that extra cash doesn't really matter to a big market team like them (plus that extra $1.6M in cap space is worth its weight in gold at the deadline - you can add another impact player if you need with it).
Even if you move Bailey separately, the package isn't enough. Aho is the type of guy every team has a handful of as a 7th D - he's already 26 so I don't see much, if any, upside going forward. Holmstrom is a decent prospect, but not a top one (12-31-43 in 68 AHL GP this season is good, but not top tier) and the 1st is most likely in the later third of the first round. Gotta add a little more juice to it to get Chicago to bite, probably a player like Dufour over Holmstrom, or an additional high pick if you don't want to upgrade the prospect. But it's gonna be an upgrade *somewhere*.