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I don't see why Carolina would want to get rid of Faulk, doesn't make sense, they have no one even close to his ability and he is on a great contract. Faulk won't be traded this year, or in the next 3 years.
Barrie will be signing somewhere for between 6 to 6.5 million. Colorado's D is brutal, they need defensemen, so a trade of Pouliot+ (he is bonafide 1st/2nd line LW) for Vatanen+ (who is a young scoring 2nd pairing D, like Barrie, but can be signed for under 5 million) with Anaheim and then send Vatanen to Colorado + Fayne with salary retained + a prospect like Joey Laleggia (who was a top scoring NCAA Dman with Denver) and throw in a couple of high picks and there might be a deal there.
Klefbom is too good to move and on a very good contract, if you move him for Barrie, you are taking 1 step forward and 2 steps back.
Reinhart and Nurse need to be in the AHL next year, they are not NHL ready next year.
Yakupov might yield a 3rd rounder, but nothing better than that.