I'm fine with it, Madden wasn't going to supplant hockey Gaud as our third line center. If he'd gotten to the bigs with us it'd have likely been as a winger. We've got other good forward prospects, trading him and a 2nd isn't the end of the world. If Toffoli resigns we won't care about a 4th round pick.
Gotta give to get, and with Boeser out for a good while and Ferland done for the season we needed some help up front. Sooner or later we've gotta make the playoffs and get these guys some experience, may as well be this season. I'd rather do this than some of the deals I've seen proposed for Simmonds. There's always risk involved when making trades, but putting Toffoli with Pearson and Bo sounds good to me.
Be interesting to see how we juggle our cap if the intent is to re-sign Toffoli, and considering they tacked on the potential 4th rounder I imagine that's the plan.