It's a decent deal for the Flyers, with the potential to be a great one if Nisk can bounce back just a little bit. He's been a fantastic mentor to Orlov.

It's a great deal for the Caps. Clears $3M+ in cap space, plus brings in a surprisingly decent RHD who slots in on the 3rd pair and takes tons of PK minutes.

GMBM is extremely good at his job.

His first moves when he was hired was signing Orpik and Niskanen to huge deals which people, myself included, criticized for length. He's now managed to dump both of those contracts, while getting great years and a championship from those players.

First order of business with the new cap room was resigning Hagelin (4 years, $2.27M aav). Vrana is an RFA but might get a long term deal. I really hope we bring back Burakovsky. Connolly deserves a raise and someone else will overpay him for it. Love the guy though.