OTT declines, a depth piece and 18th not enough

I'm not so sure OTT tosses this offer aside as quickly as that.
The 18th OA pick would be a very enticing piece to add to a trade and Holmstrom is exactly the kind of player I would love to add to our bottom 6.
He's a smart two way, Swiss army knife kind of player who was 2nd in the league in shorthanded goals this year (5).
If we can get a better offer, great, but this move would give us a bottom 6 RW (which is a need) and a decent 1st rd pick to keep or trade.

maybe in a strong draft class 18th would be good but this is not that strong a draft class. not enough for chych

Hawks easily decline. A mid round pick swap isn't nearly enough to take on Lee's contract.

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Too Much for Ehlers and Chychrun IMO

not nearly enough for Lee for Chicago to eat $7M probably

2 x $7m cap relief costs at least a 1st and 3rd, maybe more.

The key with this is that Ottawa has Boston's pick too - combine 26th with 18th and they could move up to 11/12th, right back into that third tier of players. Whether that's used on Yakemchuk/Catton/Jiricek there's almost certainly going to be a high upside player available.

it is not guarantee that a team in that range will trade down, saying take this lowball offer and then trade this and this and get something better is a BS excuse to make lowball ofers

They can have that trade set up before pulling the trigger on this one. Let them know you may have 18th in a trade, would 18 and 26 get me 11? If they say no then don't do this trade.

It's not very far off Chychrun's value though, can't expect much more than a 1st and a depth player.