With Carolina being adement about wanting to move on from Nemas given they don't believe they can afford him if they resign Guentzel, and they need to fill another 5 roster spots with around 15 mil (after resigning Guentzel for lets say 12 mil). They are going to want to shop him for ideally defense and a cheap young player with potential given the rumors going around regarding a need on the blue line and desire to be younger. In this trade they get both plus a pick, and their trade partner in the Wild get help they desperately need in the Top 6. With Faber breaking out and other young players breaking into the league for the Wild, this should be a focus pick-up for them given Kaprizov's public desire to get in Play-off shape or its bye bye Minnesota.

Why do the Canes do that? Spurgeon looks closer to being a cap dump than what he used to be. Still good, but a pretty bad contract. Rossi isn’t worth anything unless he can show the reason why he was drafted so high, and we haven’t seen that so far.