The problem with a Zacha for Boeser trade is that we lose the more valuable skill (goal scoring) for a more well rounded game, further down the line up to be sure. Boeser's QO doesn't scare me either, if we aren't able to negotiate a cheaper, longer deal, it at least buys us a year for about 1.7 more in cap space. If any of the guys listed, aside from Walsh, were right handed, we'd have a great fit for a trade, but we have Hughes, OEL and Rathbone filling out our LHD for the forseeable future, so I don't think the LHD, as good as they will become, are a fit for us. Walsh is the right fit for handedness, but we have a lot of puck movers too, and I think size and physicality or toughness are what we're looking for, similar to Schenn for longer term.
Boquist isn't someone I'm too excited about, mostly because he's only 2 years younger than Garland. Certainly not a bad prospect, but I think we'd need someone younger, so we can sort out our Miller/Horvat/Pettersson/Dickinson/any fourth line player center situation we have. I don't think we'd need someone that can step in right away. We also paid a kings ransom to get Garland on the team this offseason, and he contributes stuff most of our guys don't, so I don't know that we're in a hurry to move him either.
I agree my view is thrown out if Rutherford or some of the new management really like what they see in someone mentioned, but without seeing something through their perspective, it would seem a lot like moving assets we're short on for assets we have in the system, to varying extents, already.