Surplus of Wingers and the Captain at the helm. I think they trade for a Dman maybe one they would've drafted long ago if not for Pavel...

I wonder if they trade for a goalie, because I don't know if Hellberg is reliable enough as a 2

how's vrana been? he might go down if he hasn't been good

otherwise i think oesterle could go down and clear

Maybe some depth wingers out the door, so hard to say though with where they are sitting. Maybe something where they acquire some cap for assets or trade a pending UFA depth player like Suter or Sunny for a higher cap player and a pick? They are in an interesting spot, likely just stand pat and resign bertuzzi and Larkin.

Honestly I would like to see them go for a short term upgrade at 2C. Johansen comes to my mind. Henrique is also a player I don't mind and night be had for cheap. Maybe a better back up goalie as well. I think we could sell and possibly buy some cheaper options with some upside since we have the cap space. Mittelstat as well would be a nice option.

Johansen was just injured, And probably out for the remainder of the season.

Vrana just played his first game in a long time - Nothing special and nothing bad to say either. Did only get around 11-minutes icetime.

Lindtröm has been really bad this year and I have no faith in him . Both Oesterle and Hägg are really versatile players and one of them must be on the 3rd pair. I would expect a trade to happen.

He was starting to heat up in Grand Rapids, Then got called up a week ago and played last night with 2 shots on goal. Nothing much to write home about.

Swap Bert and Perron and then take out Kubalik and put Zadina

The easy roster move is you waive hagg to get Raymond off IR then I'm sure lalonde plays musical scratchs with Zadina, Vrana, and kubalik probably until they trade some pieces at the deadline.

Right I should have thought about that considering I had him in one of my drafts lol

I agree. I have to imagine Lindstrom is the odd man out. I don't think he has played worse than usual, I just think with better defenders around, his skill level is more apparent. It just looks to me like he doesn't have the physicality to keep forwards away from the net.

Their forward situation is a mess (in a good way). A lot of those guys are decent contributors or at the very least are hurting them on the ice. I really don't know who get's benched and who plays. Fabbri might miss a few games after blocking a shot late in the caps game. There's been no major announcement, but it looked like it hurt him a bit. This might at least allow Zadina and Vrana to get more time in the lineup. Otherwise, I would say that Kubalik hasn't impressed me much lately and I would rather see Zadina play than him.