Scandella for Nylander+cap filler(needed to make the cap work for BUF)
Brodin for Reinhart+cap filler
In these scenarios, it is presumed that the cap filler player is not valuable, is not signed long term, and does not have an NMC or NTC.
Reinhart looks like he's going to be attached to Eichel for the next decade. Trading him for Brodin involves Buffalo taking on the risk that we can't replace him and chase a top line winger for years. In exchange we get a known quantity who is real good with a high floor but a lower ceiling. Avoiding the increased risk is worth more than the player acquired.
Nylander pushes the risk back to Minny but at the cost of the 8OA pick which was a non-starter prior to the draft and Nylander certainly hasn't decreased the value of the pick in the month he's played in the AHL. Player value is off.
Cap filler, not interested in discussing cap filler in relation to these 2 trades. If part of the return in anyway for Reinhart or Nylander is cap space then it's not really a deal I'm interested in. If the cap has no value, then its not worth discussing. Exception: Tyler Ennis, player with value and cap hit who isn't part of the core. If the cap shifting is acquiring Ennis and taking on his full 4.6mil hit then that's a different story (and a different trade).
Nylander+ for Brodin, with the + compensating for the risk shifting to Minny, so not a super high value asset but something of a known quantity or a very unknown quantity with high potential
Reinhart for Hanafin