If we're in a playoff spot, we should make the biggest possible acquisition at the deadline. We haven't made the playoffs for almost a decade. We might not make them for another decade. We can't give up a 1st because we owe the league one already, and teams are less likely to allow us to protect a 1st for multiple years, but if we are firmly in a playoff spot every prospect or pick except for something stupid like Yakemchuk should be available to get us our Alexander Burrows.
not alex burrows haha
puckpedia has our projected cap space for the deadline at 4.6 million. We might actually be able to get more of a 2nd/3rd line guy
if we just look at bottom teams some targets are (not doing nashville or montreal)
taylor hall
mikael granlund (probably too expensive for us having a crazy season)
patrick kane (would be fun, probably has canada super blocked on his ntc)
jvr (probably the most realistic option)
brock mcginn/frank vatrano
taylor hall would be a nice full circle get and with the hawks scratching him might not cost too much. All the options above would end up adding more offense to the third line
Trade for Marcus Pettersson?
i think he is a LD otherwise i would be game
