Pass. This team isn't good enough. Sell all you can and bomb for a draft pick. Trading Lap for a bad rental D is very bad asset management.

Well then any top 4 D to push others down would do. There is risk in every move any GM makes and they don't lose a ton here. I have been all for selling but this is just some alternative thoughts if Bmac actually does the unexpected and bolsters the team with 2 added players to try and qualify. I would not hate if he could get 1 or 2 players for the line up with out giving away his 1st rounders. Maybe AZ would take less? I thought of Savard but he is a 2 year rental that the Caps wouldn't do I think, although he'd be a better add to the top 4.

I hear ya but don't know if it's possible. Lap can't be used for a bad rental and Milano is on pace for the same amount of points but is younger, cheaper, and better. If you want to make moves to be better now then go hard and get some young kids back with term so you can be good now and for the future.

This team is definitely not making the playoffs at this point. This run they've been on of late has cemented that. Rentals shouldn't be targets, and I think Lapierre should not be moved unless it is in a package for a young player who can make an impact.

AZ does this even if lapierre is AHL/scratch C, AZ has little depth at C

Ok well then a lesser prospect in that Dumba trade then...I just think this kind of buying I have here, wouldn't kill the picks and prospects pool. And if you don't make the playoffs you can still draft high and do things in the summer to make one more run in September. Or you can continue to move guys and add young pieces this summer too. I just don't see something like I have here as a disaster if they were to miss the playoffs. They probably do what they did last year, sell some and try to add a young guy and I am fine with that but doing some buying might spark the vets and the coaching staff to another level and it might work out, you never know.