Do not want to trade Holl unless necessary.

i understand but this makes us better and get ekholm for another year

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No. Putting Holl who has been great this year on the 3rd pair with a Sandin or Dermott will be great. Depth is important in the playoffs and dumping Him would make zero sense.
Muzzin-Ekholm
Rielly-Brodie
Dermott-Holl

That’s a top 5 dcore imo.

Ya but Holl has kinda come back down to earth in the last few games.....showing true colors or over confident or something but has nit been as good as he was in the first part of season so far

yes but he’s been good. Putting him on the 3rd would be great

Lately he has not been good...and as much as i agree he might be better suited for 3rd line, if adding him to a Nashville deal helps reduce/offset what we have to give up then i would include him.....we have rielly with brodie...then could have muzzin with ekholm and then i would trade dermott to detroit to get Merrill who could play with Bogo.....and that way we have Liljegren as a back up for rd....i still think lil has potential...i would not include liljegren in this trade.....plus we can't keep Holl if we acquire ekholm so why lose him for nothing(possibly)