So what ARE you moving to get the pieces you need, then? Eichel’s not going anywhere. Risto and Mittelstadt aren’t either. Your pick is guaranteed to be 4th. Reinhart’s either worth everything or nothing to you guys, depends on the week .
So what are you giving up to get better? 2nds and B prospects? Zemgus Girgensoms and Nelson? Gotta give to get. Everyone on a 31st place team can’t be ‘pay up or there’s no discussion to be had’.
There's no magic, one offseason fix.
I will hope for roster construction moves that build NHL caliber depth. Going in to this season with all of the following non NHLers have regular roles was insanity (Moulson, Jordan Nolan, Matt Tennyson, Seth Griffith, Nathan Beaulieu, Jacob Josefson). It's simply entirely too much crap.
We should rely on our top young talent, and build depth around it.
Trading ROR, and creating one enormous hole... doesn't help matter.
The only reason to create that hole, is if it fills another one just as huge (#1 D).
If that type of offer isn't on the table... then we draft, build, and get better. Try and find another Ennis/Foligno for Scandella/Pommer. Flip a Girgensons for an equally underperforming D as a reclamation project. Overpay a 2nd tier D, to get him here in UFA. ETC
So yea.... TOP PAIR D, or GTFO