what team in the top 5 has that though, Forsberg scored 74 pts in 81 games on a terrible team and had 94 last year, hes not some bum...5 years left on his deal, you potentially add Marner in UFA and Frondell/Hagens/Desnoyers/Martone with their pick at 4 and your top 6 should be fixed without doing anything dumb in free agency or trading a bunch of prospects and a future unprotected 1st...again it was an attempt to think through what a trade down would look like, I'd guess the ideal trade partner would be high enough in draft to stay in that forward tier they've been looking at and the team also has a legit top line forward with term that they wouldn't mind moving because they want to start over
I've been team take Schaefer and tank for McKenna but if KD is committed to finding top 6 forwards I prefer the plan above versus giving 2 of Bennett, Nelson, Ehlers or Boeser 7 years at 8-9m per with full NMCs