In case anyone missed it Brad Treliving was on the SN960 morning show for a full hour. You should seriously listen to this.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/960/boomer-...look-playoffs/
At one point in the conversation he gets to talking about this trade in the summer, and says that
he had been trying to acquire both Lindholm and Derek Ryan for "two or three years" before the trade happened.
Treliving says he watched Lindholm a lot and really thought that he was going to be a star in the League. Lindholm in Carolina "did everything at an elite level, other than it just didn't go in for him," and the thought was that playing with "the players we expected him to play with that could change."
Hanifin was always seen as possessing "elite physical traits." Treliving points out that
he had never spent more than two years playing in any League, and that in his first year in the NHL he was two years out of prep school(!).