Can’t see Washington doing that

not giving up struble and the caps are not giving up there 1st

Struble is playing top pair in Laval and 2nd most minutes behind Trudeau.
He's that Craig Rivet or Josh Gorges style defense D Anchor for Offensively included D who cause odd man rushes.
Subban always had Gorges with him until he was good enough to skate with Markov which took like 4-5 years.
Petry had Jo Benn who went from Fringe NHLer on his Superstar Brothers team to top 4 D , Kulak grew into that role in time as well
Even back to Souray days he had Craig Rivet anchoring him while Souray/Kovalev lead MTL to their last #1 Power Play in the NHL with i think 40+ PP points each.


Guys like Struble have value when Barron is struggling defensively but playing great offensively and scoring goals.
Mailloux is in a similar position defensively but that said i think Xhekaj is his perfect Partner when he comes up.
My point is with all these Offensive Defensman coming up a guy like Struble or Engstrom who both also play RD as well , they have increased value as they fit the build timeline

IMO Selling high on Harris, Matheson , Savard and Kovacevic is going to be MTL's plans the next 2 years as we can get a boat load for them

I understand your point and I would love to see all the guys up above get traded while their value is up. Washington 1st have value because the seem to struggle and we could a good player with that first(even with the pedigree of our first round pick), so giving up Struble for a chance at a top talent this year. Mtl is lacking top end talent in the lineup even in the pipeline.

What would MTL need to add to make it fair?

Take out both firsts Canadians add a 4th or 5th

And take out Struble as well?

You could probably get a 3rd for harris, 1st for Matheson, pay a 3rd to get rid of savard, and maybe a 4th for kovacevic

Ideally but I couldn’t tell you his value maybe that’s fair I have no idea