My list of to do's as new GM:
1. Call up Quinton Howden and have him play his remaining games then sign him to a 1 year ELC to be eligible for XD purposes.
2. At the XD trade Perreault for futures and try and trade Enstrom if we have no takers for Enstrom then deal Myers for futures and save all of our youth from the evil clutches of Vegas.
3. Likely lose Matthias in the XD.
4. Sign Tucker Poolman to an ELC.
5. Sign Mikhail Berdin to an ELC.
6. Sign Jansen Harkins to an ELC.
7. Sign Erik Foley to an ELC.
8. Sign Mike Spacek to an ELC.
9. Sign Matteo Gennaro to an ELC.
10. Sign Sami Niku to an ELC.
11. Resign Tanev, Kosmo, Lipon, Chiarot, and Olsen to 1-2 year two-way deals.
12. Resign Dano and Copp to 2 year deals each.
13. Let Pavelec, Postma & Thorburn walk in FA.
14. Sign one of the UFA journeyman netminders (Darling, Mason or Johnson)
15. Sign Kulikov.
16. Sign some depth depending on whose available.
17. Fire the entire coaching staff and bring in a new group of guys which would include a full time skating coach, full time strength and conditioning coach and full time skills coach and an advanced stats department headed by Garret and some of his hand picked selections (I'd offer him so much money he couldn't refuse.) His first order of business would be to tell me how much he dislikes my signing of Kulikov.
17. See what happens in TC and go from there.
The rest of my moves prior to FA would all depend on what happens at the draft.
If the next season goes downhill I'd make some adjustments there as well which would likely include dealing some more vets for futures.