I made a few roster similar to yours so I share your search for a power forward like Hall. But the problem is you don't have money left for the year after. You have Danault, Tatar, Gallagher Petry Armia going UFA and Poehling, KK, Mete, Fleury going RFA. That's almost half of the team !

My conclusion : unless Bergevin gets rid of the approx 12 M$ given to Alzner and Weber, we are in trouble and won't be able to add that star player to contend. Tha's why I don't mind if MB give away a no.1 pick to get rid of Alzner.

I might be wrong though. Would be curious to see your roster for 2021-22.

Click the longterm outlook above

32m with 10/23 players signed
if Danault , Gallagher and Petry can be re-signed for 18-19m total given what Domi re-signed for if they all take similar deals between 5-6.5m its possible
that leaves 13m fill the other 10 spots .

this sounds all very reasonable until you look at who we got to sign for 13m

Lehkonen
Kotkanemi
Poehling
Suzuki
Fleury

Kotkanemi is the only one who will be eligible for Arbitration so he's the only one who can challenge
there is the worry about offer sheets but i dont see Kotkanemi making waves , he'll likely sign the spring before he's RFA.

Poehling , Suzuki , and Fleury could all get fair value but there is the risk a team like CAR returns the favor and offers him a 5 year deal walking him into UFA .

its doable but it depends heavily on Romanov being Drew Doughty level good straight out the gate after trading Chiarot senselessly given how Key he's been defending our goalies this year its just foolish moving him . move Kulak while he's got value after we got him for the throw in players from the Plekanec deal as he's inconsistent as **** and is a poor mans Mete . Romanov's good but he needs time as he's 2 year into the KHL and not capable of the minutes that is being suggested so to think he can are the NHL level carry the weight for Mete and Kulak is just baffling . if Mete and Romanov are there you Need a Chariot who can play 21-23 minutes comfortably and not a Kulak who struggles after 16-17 minutes .

that being said if i was gonna throw 11.5m dollars away on something i'd likely throw some of it Mikael Granlunds way as
Granlund-Kotkanemi-Armia sounds like ****ing gold