I doubt the Wild take that. Brännström will be 25 by the start of next season and still hasn't broken out to be the offensive dynamo he was expected to be. I doubt it's happening. And while it would be nice to take a flyer on him, a 2nd round pick is too steep of a price. Remember, the Wild traded Calen Addison for a 5th round pick this season.

Brännström's also an upcoming RFA with a 2,1 million QO and arbitration rights, so not the cheapest 3rd pairing guy, either.

You make many good points here. In reality, I expect Brannstrom to sign his QO in Ottawa.

Saros won't resign for that little and that short. His camp has already let Trotz know they're looking at Hellebuyck's contract as a comparable. Either way Nashville would decline. The only piece they're getting back that has value is Tkachuk, and Nashville's issues at forward are down the middle. This is just a bad fit because the upgrade from Nyquist to Tkachuk isn't worth the downgrade from Saros to Korpisalo or the future 2nd.

To be fair to EB, hes a lot better than Addison

The Jets aren't giving up a better player to help Ottawa by taking a bad contract.

Saros is not worth Brady used underwear after he had explosives diarrhea.

OTT declines with every insult in the book