Devils: Merkley or Subban

Added. Who is more likely?

Byron or allen from mtl. Hopefully and most likely mtl gives a pick for Seattle to take Byron

Montreal Allen...

Berdin/demelo/harkins/Appleton, not sure what seattle will be in need of as far as numbers go at this point. Possibly prospect hunting maybe future starting goalie in berdin from Jets

From Flames I'd just protect Tkachuk, Gaudreau, Monahan, Lindholm, Lucic, Mangiapane, Dube and expose Backlund. He's good, but he'd save them 5 mil bucks for future center acquisitions.

They're most likely trading Bennett mid-season with all those rumors, so depending who's coming back might change this though.

Tough to say. Subban is having somewhat of a bounce back year while Merkley is a bit underwhelming. I probably would go with Merkley

You can give them compensation like I did. Another Habs fan said a pick to take Byron

So change Backlund for Bennett? And remove the pick?

Yep.

Winnipeg Options:
Forward: Appleton
Defense: Demelo/Stanley, Niku and Beaulieu
Goalie: Berdin

Probably out of these Stanley/Appleton are the most likely.

No team wanted Byron for free. I guess Caufield or Primeau would do it....

Of the top of my head from all teams I'd put

ANA: D Jacob Larsson
ARI: RW Christian Fischer
BOS: D Jakub Zboril
BUF: D Colin Miller
CGY: C Mikael Backlund
CAR: D Jake Bean
CHI: LW Matt Highmore
COL: D Ryan Graves
CBJ: D Dean Kukan
DAL: G Anton Khudobin
DET: D Troy Stecher
EDM: LW Dominik Kahun
FLA: D Riley Stillman
LA: D Olli Määttä
MIN: LW Jordan Greenway
MTL: D Joel Edmundson / D Ben Chiarot, whichever gets left unprotected
NSH: RW Colton Sissons
NJ: LW Andreas Johnsson
NYI: C Kieffer Bellows
NYR: C Brett Howden
OTT: LW Vitaly Abramov
PHI: LW James Van Riemsdyk, probably with some compensations
PIT: LW Jared McCann
SJ: RW Rudolfs Balcers
STL: D Niko Mikkola
TB: LW Alex Killorn, definitely with some compensations, most likely including Tyler Johnson as well.
TOR: C Alex Kerfoot
VAN: LW Tyler Motte / C Zack MacEwen, both are fine
WSH: G Vitek Vanecek
VAN: G Mikhail Berdin

For the Bruins, probably Kase or Lauzon/Zboril. Would probably be open to making a trade though, especially if we add a defenseman with term this season