Looking at Schneider's prospects, the trade isn't overly logical for Montreal: A second and third rounder for a 39-year old free agent to be whose only got 15 points and is playing 20 minutes a night on the second-worse defense in the league? At least Atlanta is making back draft picks from that 2007 Keith Tkachuk trade.
Although Schneider does bring experience from a variety of winning systems in Detroit and Montreal, and knows the struggles of truly lowly teams, he and his 1993 cup ring certainly aren't worth that much are they?
Maybe they are, but don't expect that to be the consensus.
So while the selling teams may look at this and say "If Schneider is worth this, than our guy is at least worth this", the buyers may be looking at this and seeing Montreal, a desperate team looking to stay in the playoff picture, scrambling to do something to right the ship.
A desperate deal for a desperate team may be all this is, but for the Toronto's and Florida's of the NHL, this could be a blessing in disguise.
It's all in who you talk to.
Sidenote: TSN.ca has reported that Kaberle has supplied the Leafs with a list of teams he's willing to be traded to and Pavel Kubina may yet do the same.
Bryan Thiel is a Senior Writer and an NHL Community Leader for Bleacher Report. If you want to get in contact with Bryan you can do so through his profile. You can also check out all of his previous work in his archives.
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