Totally valid point.
Its a nice luxury to have and to be honest I really didnt see this problem arriving this fast.
Russell has played the best of himself, Larsson, and Benning. But one of those guys should be moved in the offseason primarily to minimize the amount of waiver unexempt defense we have.
Or one of those no longer waiver exempt ahl defense needs to be moved.
I prefer the former and would suggest one of Russell or Larsson for maximum cap benefits and minimizing our UFA status contracts.
We have all this year to figure which familiar veteran D to move and then all next year to figure out which new D man works best moving forward. Seattle can take the one we like least.
4/4/1 will be who cares forwards and Klefbom, Nurse, Bear, and ???
One of Persson, Jones, or Laggesson. Seattle will get a good D from us but... it will kind of be nice. The Oilers will have enough data to make an educated guess but not enough that if the person let go succeeds wildly they won't have egg on their face.
No Chara Redden situation. To which I personally would have kept Chara despite his worse offensive number at the time.