There is nothing super sexy in the return for Ottawa but they get some decent assets. Chiasson is becoming a solid power forward. He needs to fill out a bit but he's on the right path and will be a 20+ goal guy.
Guptill is also tall which teams like though he seems more of a speed guy than power forward. He's just out of college but scouting reports were pretty complementary. He's not a prospect that will make The Sens out of camp or anything, but there is some potential there.
The second in a deep draft year is valuable. That should be around the 50th pick and quite tradable.
Paul is still in the OHL and young enough he might do something and Karlsson is in the ECHL and one step away from going back to the SEL in my mind. We can just call this the dufus for dufus part of the deal though.
Spezza is the best proven part of course and for that Dallas wins but I don't think they get a shiny new penny in the deal and it could go south on them just as easily. Spezza could try and carry too many pancakes one day and there goes his back. He's also 31 and hasn't been a PPG guy for a couple of seasons. Ottawa wasn't also in the best position here. They ended up getting something for the guy and can move on now. Very similar to us and Iginla.
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