I wouldn’t trade Vlasic for Nurse. Vlasic sucks, but with only one more year after this one (and a not crazy buyout- both off the books before Celebrini/Smith/Askarov contracts are up, we can deal). Nurse would be an improvement on our D, but he’s likely to get worse and no use having a $9M boat anchor.
Huberdeau we could use but again his contract is just too damn long. When Grier started he had $54M in Karlsson, Burns, Vlasic, Couture, Hertl, Labanc, and Kane. Meier also was due for a new contract with a $10M qualifying offer. That’ll all be down to $12M soon enough, and $8M of it (Couture) will likely be on LTIR. The rest will be the retention of Karlsson and Meier.
I’d love to rob a team blind by taking their worst contracts, particularly for players of some ability like Huberdeau or Nurse, however they must have a max of 3 years left. You got to think EDM would pay through the nose to rid themselves of Nurse- imagine what they could do with $10M across two top 4 dmen, but unfortunately Nurse is just too damn long.