I still believe the Senspiracy that Hamonic will go on LTIR to create additional space to add a #5-6 defenseman.
I find it hard to believe that we are going to go into the season with this group. Our depth drops off a cliff after Sanderson, Zub, Chabot, and Jensen. While you can point to JBD, Kleven, Guennette, and say maybe one of them will take a big step forward and become a player we can trust to anchor the bottom pair, I don't think the team is in a position to gamble on that.
Even if we do not trade for Ceci or Kleven, there might be a trickle-down effect where if a team acquires one or both, they opt to move one of their own defenseman instead of acting as a third party.
Just an example, using a name that was brought up before in this thread - let's hypothetically say there is a team who would give up an asset for Whitecloud, even with the current cap constraints across the league, Vegas could approach Edmonton and say we'll take Kulak if he is bundled with a 3rd, then they could open up the cap by flipping Whitecloud to a third team for an asset. I am not saying that the two players are interchangeable, but with the depth Vegas has and where Whitecloud slots in, they could do something like that.
Maybe it's the wrong name to bring up, because I doubt they could move Whitecloud any more easily than Vegas can move one of their two D (it has nothing to do with him being good or bad, just cap dynamics).