I don't mind the trade in a vacuum. Not sure I'd make it in the context of our current season though.
This trade isn't going to turn around the season. Nilsson is UFA at year end, we could have gone after him in the offseason if that's why we traded for him, but I suspect he is a stopgap.
I'd rather have sent Pyatt to the AHL and kept our 6th rounder but it's a pretty minor grievance, though we've historically done pretty darn well with our late picks with about a third making the NHL.
Had we done this right when Condon went down, that would have made a lot more sense. At this point, it really seems like too little too late, like changing the muffler on the car with over 300k miles that doesn't start when the humidity rise, or gets to low, and needs a jump start every single time. Sure, the car needed a new muffler, but at some point you just need to write the whole thing off.