Went back in time and checked out the quotes from Sens GM Pierre Dorion when they acquired Brannstrom from the Golden Knights in exchange for Mark Stone.
Officially the trade was Mark Stone and Tobias Lindberg to the Knights for Erik Brannstrom, Oscar Lindberg and a 2020 second round pick (Egor Sokolov). Yes, an anomaly, that two guys named Lindberg swapped teams.
Of course at his media conference Dorion was waxing poetic about Brannstrom and the offensive catalyst he would bring to the Sens. Talk about a 'nothing trade', at least for Ottawa. The Lindberg's are long gone, out of the league.....and Sokolov lasted a couple of training camps and was traded this off-season to Utah for Jan Jenik.
Brannstrom bounced back forth between the NHL and Belleville, and was a frequent healthy scratch in Ottawa. And of course the Ottawa faithful, never warmed to him since he'd been the key guy coming back in the trade of one of the most popular Senators ever in Stone.
LOL!...in the end, Dorion was the Eastern Conference's version of Jim Benning. So it we're looking at looking at things with 'rose-colored glasses', maybe Brannstrom can replicate the career of Gustav Forsling? Then again, maybe not.