You called D. Hamilton was traded. Jones was traded not for future 100 p player. Severson was free agent. And I didn’t said “young RD”. I said you can trade right defenseman, you can sign right defenseman. This is literally what is going on. But you will not find experienced player of Kaprisov profile.
From your list it’s only Tkachuk. You are clearly trying to sell Michkov lower than Reinbacher, you are comparing him with Fiala, Duchene and Buchnevich etc who were never profiled as potential 100 points players. Zibanejad was 100(90) points player after. etc only Tkachuk. Other were not players with high star profile. If we will deep dive so far, we will take a lot of defensemen and their price was very reasonable. But Tkachuk had big price. Still better player. So if you are comparing him with Zibanejad/Buch/etc, than we should take examples of second pair defensemen. I’m lazy to search it. I’m too lazy to analyze the list of right defensemen overall - if you think that Carlson is a better player than Kaprisov because Carlson is rare 50+ points right defenseman than… may be you should be gm with your vision. from your list centers are available more often, why they are the firsts on the draft? And why we saw so many good defensemen on free agent market, we saw so many trades with good defensemen but we often don’t see trades for Tkachuk or even for better wingers.
I also find funny that you consider Reinbacher to be future 1RD when he haven’t even played a game in this league. Other staff is as bad. I’m not asking from Reinbacher to be top pairing from the start. It’s literally not my words. But he isn’t a player of top league defenseman profile. As I’m not waiting 100 or even 75+ points from Michkov from the start. But ceiling of Michkov is big( bigger than Buchnevich, Duchene, Zibanejad, Stone, ROR, Kessel, Seguin, Hall, Laine, Meier, Fiala, Eichel, DeBrincat), ceiling of Reinbacher isn’t as big. We are talking about potential of top league producer/one of the best league winger/may be even future Hart trophy top-3 candidate. And Reinbacher. His ceiling is second or third defenseman. So again
Go and try to trade Reinbacher for Michkov now
Go and try to trade Kaprisov for Werenski or for Dobson or for Morrisey or for Matheson like I said. Look at your examples. So many forwards. I believe Minnesota will make this trade. I don’t.
And you don’t. You know that Kaprisov has much more value than most 45-55 points defensemen. Everybody knows it. And you would not trade Demidov for Reinbacher if mtl would draft Smith year ago. But you can continue to try to find of reasoning of “it’s easier to find Michkov than Reinbacher”. Yeah. Sure.