I'm fine itemizing if you are.
I fail to see how waiting (and this is key) for the right asset at the right moment is "waiting forever". Besides Liljegren and Borgman, what other prospects on defense mirror the kind of depth found in clubs like Winnipeg and Nashville? Heard of Sami Niku? Just won the AHL D of the year as a rookie and I think he was the first since Justin Schultz to do so, ever, until Niku. And he belongs to Winnipeg. So does Poolman. They're going to supplement Trouba and Morrissey.
The second we get into Nashville's D prospect depth we enter truly deep waters. We simply have nothing to compare between two clubs we'd certainly like to emulate...except it seems in their proven method of drafting abundant quality and maximizing assets when/where possible. That's how they're able to justify moving Ryan Suter and Shea Weber, because they drafted Roman Josi and Ryan Ellis and Mattias Ekholm and one could build a top six better than we've ever had, just from the players they've drafted and patiently developed.
As I mentioned in another post, mitigating one deficiency only to offset another is negative gains. Centre, for example, isn't a position of strength for us. There's Matthews, there's Kadri, and if Bozak is gone...Then there's patchwork. Remove Kadri and that now glaring need cascades from a still needy defense to a glaring hole at C....And one thing is for sure, just like Florida has Trocheck and Dallas has Klingberg and Philadelphia has Couturier, we're never, NEVER, going to find a C like Kadri for his cap-hit in today's market. Not unlike Nylander, if you account for games player and points produced, Kadri's a top 5 player from his draft class. And you simply don't trade players of his calibre for the Brett Pesces of the league.
I mean...Did we all forget Jeff Finger and Mike Komisarek so quickly?