101st_fan
I taught Yoda
If we get anyone in UFA, it needs to be a late 20s year old (Marner or Chychrun age range) and we need to move some of the mid 30s guys and relegate of 4th liners to the AHL or trade them.
Trotz isn't likely to move RoR, Stamkos, March, Bunting, or Forsberg. There is five of the top six on opening night. The question is what does he do with Smith, Sissons, and McCarron as vets and Evangalista, Svech, ZLH as youngsters. Something has to give among those six to create room for someone either from Milwaukee or the FA market. With Trotz as GM it wouldn't surprise me to see Vrana get a short term offer just to complicate things up front even more.
The backend is just as congested. Josi (if healthy), Skjei, Lauzon are half of the blueline with another seven players under contract with Gibson and Molendyk making the move to pro hockey .... not counting MDG and Livingstone as pending group six FAs. The two group six players are the first domino to fall and we see what Trotz is doing from there.