The Ottawa Senators' decision to trade down during the first round of the 2025 NHL Draft was, as everyone likes to say now, a nice piece of business.

The Kings have been eliminated by the Oilers in the Stanley Cup Playoffs in each of the last four seasons and were expected to make changes this summer as they try to get past the first round.

NHL teams may have been smarter in free agency than in past years, but there were still a few head-scratching contracts ...