Three players we don't want any more than you do and a future second aren't enough to get John Gibson, never mind with retention.

As a jackets fan I would accept that for laine I think

1. Holl and Husso aren't warm bodies, they're warmed-over veterans. And James won't be ready to join anyone's lineup for at least two more seasons.
2. Holl and Husso aren't a good start to anything; they're on the back side of their careers.
3. James is a nice prospect but we have at least 4 LW prospects whose futures are just as bright.
4. Anaheim is only $2.7 million away from reaching the cap floor with Jackson LaCombe still to sign and one more roster slot to fill. We don't need to take any further artificial steps to reach the cap floor now that we traded for Brian DuMoulin.
5. In short, we might give you a middling draft pick for James if he were on the market, which he shouldn't be, but we wouldn't pick Holl or Husso up off waivers, so this unappetizing stew isn't close to getting John Gibson.

That package doesn't interest Calgary much for Andersson

i forgot to say please

a rebuilding team adding a prospect, a second round pick and two players in positions of need for a goalie who wants to move on seems like a fair deal for both parties involved

It's close, at least. I might ask for the 3rd to be in 2025 instead, but this is a decent framework.

Not when the goalie doesn't want to move on and is better than the goalie coming back, the two players in position of need are being jettisoned because they stink, the second-round pick isn't in 2025, and the prospect duplicates 4 other prospects in the pipeline already who therefore are ahead of the incoming prospect in development, No, it's not anything close to an appealing trade for the Ducks.