Turcotte plus TDL

Kinda like what you've done here but I think you'll have to add a bit to the Dallas trade.

Unlike pretty much every team in the playoff hunt... Im not asking them to retain any money on him, and he goes back to Dallas in the off-season.

One year retention shouldn't be much of a problem for Dallas financially, the thing they should focus in is maximizing the return. If it means we could get a solid prospect at the cost of retaining $3,500,000 of cap (which is much less in actual money as majority of it would have been paid already earlier in the season) Stars should absolutely go via that route.

Does Dallas view themselves as being sellers? 4 points out of a wildcard spot.

Probably not, but they should. They're way too streaky to actually compete of anything meaningful.

Only consistent things in the Stars team is Bowness' offensive game being consistently non-existent and Jim Nill doing absolutely nothing.