Luke Schenn and Ian Cole in the top 4? Yikes. 1 Star because this team is 1,000 times worse.

I think Carolina can afford to trade Hanifin or Pesce for a star forward. Not both. Pesce for lee is interesting. Lee is a phenominally consistent goal scorer, but the Islanders have one good right defenseman, so this gets them on the phone.

I don't know if Hanifin is enough to stabilize the ship in Buffalo, but he could help. Doubt they're retaining salary just for the sake of Carolina having 16M in cap space, and Carolina needs to sweeten the pot to get such a solid two way center back.

Doubt a team gives a third round pick for a 3M AHLer, without giving dead salary back, but vancouver has decriminalized marijuana, if that's where you're going with this? I could very much see the Caps trading Orpik for Kruger, in order to save money. If you want Kruger to work as trait bait with positive value, though, you have to jiggle him to make him look alive.

Rask is worth more than that.

Bigger question: WHY do you want Carolina's roster to be so different from this year? They're tenth in the east with a young, quick, talented team. Trade for a center and a goalie, and watch the kids keep improving.

you need to look up how restricted free agency works...

https://www.thoughtco.com/nhl-restricted-free-agents-2778980

you're paying some guys less than the minimum they can be paid, and none of those guys are going to sign 3 or 4 year deals for that little money.

You made Carolina laughably bad

I feel sorry for the poor Carolina fans now.