Holland seems to be out of touch these days, at least on the surface. The issue with him is that he says he isn't rebuilding. Okay, so how do you turn this around? Does re-building on the fly really work all that well? I'm not so sure, but maybe he can pull it off. Got quite a few good young pieces now. If you can flip Nyquist for a first or even a couple seconds this year (if we are out of a playoff spot, which I assume we will be) then that's great. We got a massive return for Tatar. I think Green would've fetched us a first this year if not for his injury. But Vanek is for sure going to get you a second or a third. Hey, teams needing some toughness for a playoff push, Witkowski is a UFA next year, give us a seventh! (Don't think so but it could happen!) We may get rid of Howard this year to (pending UFA).
Unfortunately, we have to wait 2 more years for Franzen and Ericsson to come off the books totally. Three for Z. But hey, once those are off we can start looking to resign our kids and we should have some room in our cap. (Abby and Nielsen will be bad for awhile).
Cholowski
Rasmussen
Zadina
Veleno
Berggren
Smith
Hronek
We need some goaltending prospects and some more defence. Hopefully Svechnikov can be a 25-30 goal man to.