Langdon Alger
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- Apr 19, 2006
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Why would Ottawa help a division rival by allowing themselves to be used in a salary-dump?
Why would Ottawa risk that Toronto uses that 2nd-round pick to draft someone who could be useful down the road, all as part of aforementioned salary-dump?
I wouldn't do this trade if I were Ottawa.
A 2nd-round pick for Andreas Johnsson is the type of deal you do if you are Tampa Bay or Dallas or Vegas or Boston. A contending team looking to add depth for a hopeful deep Playoff run.
A team in obvious rebuild like Ottawa has zero need for Johnsson.
They would be better to stockpile as many prospects as possible to see if any of them can possibly turn into the next Patrice Bergeron, Shea Weber, Brayden Point, or Nikita Kucherov (all players taken in the 2nd and 3rd rounds).
You have a strange way of looking at this. Johnsson is a useful player, he’s not a cap dump. Sure, it would help Toronto to dump his contract, but Ottawa gets something out of it as well. Ottawa gets a 25 year old forward with a reasonable cap hit for the next three years. The guy scored 20 goals in 18-19. Let’s not act like he’s no good.