I hope you don't take this personaly, and it's more directed towards everybody loving this trade:
The Oilers would never ever do that trade.
Klefbom for Coburn is something they'd do I think. Even with something added from their site. Which leaves the rest at 17th OA and Grossmann for the 3rd OA.
As much as we make fun of them overvalueing their players, you and everybody agreeing just did the same thing.
The Preds also have zero reason to trade Jones.
He's going to hit his prime just when Weber is going to regress.
They will probably have the best defender in the league for the next 15years with those two guys.
I don't mind your perspective at all. It helped me fit my head through the door frame.
I think we can take for granted that the Oilers FO likes Coburn a lot. Our take on "a lot" (ie, Holmgren turning down 2 2nds + Magnus Paajarvi) and theirs (ie, both sides being somehow okay with Coburn for 2 2nds) differs pretty considerably. The Oilers have a pretty good stock of young defensemen, including Schultz, Klefbom, Marincin and Nurse. But we're intuiting (my vocabulary builder of the month; the person with whom I am working uses it all the time and it avoids the cliche joke about "assume") that MacTavish wants to accelerate the maturation process in landing Coburn.
For me, 3rd OC > Coburn > Klefbom, which I don't think is outlandish. Coburn + 17th for Klefbom + 3rd is close, and I think Grossmann could contribute nicely to the Oilers' blue line. No, I don't think the Oilers faithful would go for this, but then again I believe most of them, if asked out on a date by Kate Upton, would expect her to pick up the restaurant bill and drive them home. Arguably, MacT is the one looking to make a splash and he kind of has the luxury of a lineup filled with 1st OAs. More than pretty much any GM in the league, he could trade the 3rd pick and not have his house burned down.
Frankly, I don't even mind if it wasn't Klefbom. If the only barrier to this whole deal going down was the difference between Klefbom and, say, Gagner I'd still pull the trigger and play Gagner (somewhat underrated, IMHO) on the 2nd/3rd line as a scoring winger. Heck, a few games of Gagner / Giroux / Simmonds wouldn't be half bad.
As for the Nashville end of the deal, I based this on what I remember from main board talk from some Preds fans who said of Weber, Josi and Jones, they would be inclined to trade Jones for offense. Maybe it's the senility, maybe the shoe polish I drank with lunch, but I'm pretty sure I remember this correctly. If so, I think the Schenns for Jones is crazy, but put Brayden and any of Draisaitl, (maybe) Bennett, Dal Colle, etc., and I think the values are comparable.
I'll stand by my deal. For once.
