agree about desiring a RHer. Babcock always talks about it, and he does everything in his power to shoehorn a rightie onto the powerplay.
I would wonder if we don't make a move to upgrade the blueline first, and if that means we sign/trade for a leftie, we don't then pull a separate trade for a right hander. What we expect to happen aside, assume we sign Markov through free agency. Do we then turn around and deal Smith for a guy like Byfuglien or Green? At the very least it opens up the possibility.
The term works in our favor to a degree, though. Assuming we don't gut the farm in trades, we know Datsyuk is gone in a few years, Z and Franzen will be slipping into elder statesmen, and some guys in GR will (hopefully) be at the end of their ropes and in need of a spot. So, Green moves on. Not the worst thing in the world for us or him, depending on what we would give to acquire him. Maybe we even trade him in that last year if a kid looks good enough.