A team around the bubble with some cap space to burn, but maybe not wanting to go "all in" burning trade capital would seem like a good fit. Maybe someone like Detroit... oh... wait...
There's gotta be a team or two out there willing to gamble on it though. And if Tank himself is inclined to get out, he'll presumably be more flexible in taking a deal to more or less anywhere that would bother trading for him at the deadline.
Columbus with all their injuries kind of comes to mind, though i doubt Detroit would want to even potentially help a bubble rival like that in the East.
Edmonton seems like a consideration, if they could work out a swap for a Skinner or Arvidsson type deal with some appropriate tweaks and adds somewhere.
Vancouver seems like a sneaky candidate to go "bargain shopping" like that, with some newfound cap space and a murky "coming or going?" scenario. Especially if they do end up moving Boeser because they don't think they can reach a deal that makes sense. Something like...Boeser+ out for a 2C in some fashion, maybe even a multi-step deal (Cozens, Barzal, McTavish, etc.). Then bring in Tarasenko on the cheap and hope like heck that a change of scenery re-ignites him? Stick him with DeBrusk-Petey-Tank and give him Boeser's PP minutes and see what happens? Scary because he's at that age where he might just be completely cooked. But he was alright last year for the most part.
