You are terribly missing the point. Nilsson was moved to accommodate Demko. He was a complete flop here and a 6th round pick was a surprise. I’d take Bachman over Nilsson in a flash. The org deserves hard criticism for signing Nilsson but not for tossing him
To be clear, Nilsson is not someone I think we should have held on to. We didn't need him at any point, except in the event that all our other goalies and prospects were injured. Which only occurred around the time Benning traded him.
However, he looked like a flop the way basically every goalie looks like a flop behind arguably the worst defense in the NHL. But he was at minimum an NHL caliber goalie.
I get your point about moving him to accommodate Demko, and that's why I say it was one of Benning's better trades. I like that he was moved. And the trade had a good purpose (although the plan was very poorly thought out). Also it was good that we got back some kind of draft pick back instead of giving up extra draft picks. I actually think it was an impressive trade, for Benning.
However, one of the points I made was he was an NHL caliber goalie that returned a 6th. Benning then was looking for basically an AHL caliber goalie and allegedly the prices GMs gave him were 2nds/3rds. That doesn't really make sense unless we believe that the GMs were expecting to take advantage of Benning... which we've seen happen over and over. For comparison, Benning got a barely AHL caliber goalie for a 7th.
I also disagree about Bachman over Nilsson, I definitely think Nilsson is easily the better choice. You know his combined NHL save percentage on all teams except Vancouver is .911?