I'll repeat what i said 10 pages ago.
The answer is No...and I really like Duchene.
The only way I see this as a good trade for Ottawa would have been if we truly were trying to add the one last piece that put us over the top. As great as the run was in the playoffs, we were not a bonafide contender that just needed one piece. We were still building, even if we had kept EK, and I don't think as a small market that we can lose trades unless we are virtually that close.
Why did we lose this trade? Because there's very little upside to Matt Duchene at this stage in his career. Even with the season he is having, is it that much better than the value we paid for? IMO you win a trade when two players at the time of the trade have equal value, and are expected to have similar value going forward, but soon after the trade it is clear that the person you traded for has significantly more value than the person you gave up (Hall-Larson). Furthermore, if the person you trade for is locked into a good contract for a few years then that is even better, because what's the point in acquiring more value if you lose that value having to resign the new player to a huge contract that forces someone else off your team. (exception would be if you have cap room or can clear out dead weight to make room....which we don't/can't)
If Turris wasn't going to resign then I understand involving him in the trade, but I would have gone after a younger center that still hadn't broken out yet, but who has the potential to become a 1c. Of course you can hit/miss on these but this is how a small market punches above it's weight and adds talent to the roster at a below market price, both in salary and assets given up to trade for them.
We need to start winning some trades. Period. I don't care if it's stars or 3rd lines, but at some point if PD cannot acquire some players that cost less than their value to replace the ones that cost more than their value (Ryan, Anderson, Boedker) then all we will be doing is spinning our wheels.
You can call this negative if you want, but it's also called reality.