Well, I feel like Murray has been our best defenseman through 3 games. Not that I expect that to stay that way all season. But what it has done is allowed us to keep rolling pair after pair when any of the other guys have struggled. I think all of the other 5 guys have struggled at times and Murray has played great. Any package involving Murray+ will hurt, and make it a necessity that our top 4 play lights out. Call him a 3rd pair guy if you want, but he was still playing lockdown duty late in the game last night.
I would like to believe that we are looking more at trading futures.
And that Murray + Milano should be off the table.
Having watched almost all of Colorados games this season, Murray is a maaajor upgrade over all of their LHDs. On the right side, Barrie has been fairly impressive, and EJ has been so-so.
I would hope this team could be mostly kept intact and we could make a deal out of draft picks, depth D with upside (Nuti or Gabe - who would be looking at big minutes in Colorado already), and prospects not currently on the team (Abramov, Motte, Gavrikov, Stenlund, Texier, Merzlikins, Tarasov, etc.)
If that's not enough, just throw a draft pick at Vegas or something for Eakin or Ship, since you know they're looking for futures... There are options out there that have to cost less than what the fans have been asking for.