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That is not a good trade for Detroit despite it making them better in the short run.
With the way our RD is looking and the time it takes before our prospects fix that it doesn't help to have three years of Connor. The roster would be unbalanced, both when it comes to positions as well as with timing.
Detroit is going to be good when we get all our prospects up to speed in about three to four years time. Trading our best prospects and picks for players that won't be here when that happens is not a strategy that works.
The best strategy for Detroit is to keep the current strategy of drafting well and filling out the roster with UFAs until such time that we have our long term core in place. That means waiting until ASP, Kasper, Mazur, Edvinsson, Johansson, Danielson, Raymond, Söderblom and the rest of the kids are fully established in the NHL. Only then is it time to start making any major moves.
If we were to make trades like this one now then we would get Connor who would leave (or price himself out) before ASP and Danielson have played a single game and Morrissey would be on the wrong side of 30 (as opposed to Edvinsson being 23 and just getting into his best years). We would also miss out on a 1st round pick for two years. We would be a better team right now but not a good one because the trade doesn't fix our biggest problems and we'd be a much worse team in five years time because of what we gave up.