I agree. Leafs were going to take Korshkov and so it really didn't matter if they gave Anaheim the #30 or #31 picks in the trade. Last pick of the 1st round or 1st of the second really make no difference here as long as both teams got the player they wanted.
The true opportunity cost of the Freddy Andersen deal is really the picks #30 (
Sam Steel) and #50 (
Maxime Comtois) both of whom are playing for Canada at the WJC and both scored yesterday against Slovakia.
However Andersen is almost irrelevant to my original point, in that since Kappy came as a big piece of the Kessel trade (when Leafs traded away their star offensive forward) then
in order for the Leafs management to show a return on investment they're likely going to favour Kapanen and give him every opportunity to succeed ahead of other prospects, as that makes management look better in this translation. This is a good thing for Kappy as he has a leg up on other prospects and we should start seeing him get more chances to show what he can do. In fact part of the long-term plan might be to let JVR walk and fill his roster spot internally with Kapanen next year and use his cheaper contract to start to offset the bigger pending contracts of the big 3 coming out of their ELC.