You mean make a trade with Seattle so they pick someone specific? Yes you can.

Yes you can

You can but reportedly Ron Francis is asking for a first, and a good prospect to not take someone

Yup. And Seattle is arguably in an even more enviable position to do so than Vegas was. Flat cap+Reduced revenues=Teams trying to either shed cap/cut payroll.

Yeah you can but don't expect those to come until very near the draft itself.

as he should, but I think the majority of GMs are not goign to make the same mistake that they did with Vegas, they built them into a power house doing all those sort of trades with them
Just let Seattle take the guy and move on,

you are going to see GMs protecting cheaper players over better players in some cases. and it wouldn't surprise me if Seattle takes a couple of those higher salaries of good players, retain some money and flip them for good assets to other teams.