Can we include trades? Without trades:
Kerins-Pytlik-Roth
Trott-Carroll-MacKay
McLean-Johnston-Peca
Kartye-Dickinson-Watson
Mufarreh/Boudreau/Jacklin
O'Rourke-LeGuerrier
Wale-Holmes
Calisti-Wawrow
Halushak
Propp-Taylor
If I were to include the following trades:
Carroll, Mufarreh + picks to Peterborough for SDA
Kartye + picks to Sarnia for Grima
Wale for Serensits
Kerins-SDA-MacKay
Trott-Pytlik-Roth
Boudreau-Johnston-Peca
McLean-Dickinson-Watson
Jacklin
O'Rourke-Grima
LeGuerrier-Serensits
Calisti-Holmes
Halushak/Wawrow
Propp-Taylor
Clarke is released in both cases. If Hayton were to come back, you could push all of the centers down (if you had Hayton, SDA, Pytlik down the middle, SSM are favourites in the West), Boudreau can go to the juniors for a year, and Dickinson can move to the 3/4 LW. This is pushing SSM's window forward a year (by trading Carroll, Mufarreh and Kartye to get an OA and an 00' who won't be back next year) to essentially capitalize on Hayton, but it won't really hurt SSM's future too much. The picks are minimal and SSM has a number of forward prospects in the pipeline who can replace Carroll, Mufarreh and Kartye down the line (D'Intino, Parsons, Savard, Chiddenton, Tomasini, Frechette plus potentially Haymes, Miller, Mann and Brown), and will still have a number of younger forwards on their roster (Watson, Dickinson, Kerins, Boudreau). As it stands right now they are going to need to move a couple of forwards just to make everyone fit.