This is one of the better ones I’ve seen though if you trade Rutta that opens up a world of more possibilities to solidify the D. I’d also take out the Caleb Jones signing and have Smith on the third pair and then a veteran guy to pair with him. Figure with Rutta’s cap hit gone, you’re looking at around $3m to spend at the deadline or to improve the team via trade now since the UFA market has dried up for the most part.

Also that bottom 6 looks considerably weak to my liking, I don’t think that really moves the needle that much at all in terms of depth scoring and more goals, etc. The things we are desperate for.

Swayman isn't getting moved. He's already back in Boston at the team facility getting ready for the upcoming season.

I think the bottom six is going to look weak no matter what rn, that’s why I put Rust in there, that third line will low key be good cause Acciari peppers the net, Rust has great speed and ability to carry the puck, and Suter is a solid 2 way player that can score, you can also put DOC there and bank on a breakout, on the 4th Carter is gonna play cause they love him, and Ekler is a great defensive C that might open it up for Carter the other way a bit and Carter and DOC has a bit of chemistry, I like Jones a lot but wouldn’t mind Smith there, idk if there’s any RHD I like left out there that’s cheaper than Rutta, Rutta was good when healthy too, problem was staying healthy

I’ve just seen Bos fans trading for him on here so I put it out there as a possibility for insurance for him, theyre still in a tough spot to sign him cause you gotta think the absolute floor for him is a short 3 mil deal, and they need to add 3 more FW to the team as well and sign Frederic

Tokarski is a Rochester body and GMKA has said they want to run it back with Levi and UPL so I doubt that they are going to take table scraps for him.

It’s not scraps, Petry graded out as a above average dman last year and pretty well above too, he wasn’t playing up to his heap hit, but he was still a pretty well above average dman

They have $6.2 million in cap space and a guys in the AHL that that will compete to round out the roster. Those guys make under $1 million and are easy enough to fit in.