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Originally Posted by Chris Shafer

This.

Not to mention the absurdity of some of the posts on the trade forum.

Start with Couturier and Coburn? **** no.

Can we please just sign a UFA and re-sign Carle? Next year there's an even greater plethora of unrestricted defensemen to go after with even more cap space in our pocket without losing any valuable assets for no reason. Meanwhile we let our core develop.

Let's just stand pat. We added Grossmann. Add another defenseman and a defensive forward like Gaustad. Or hell, just Gaustad.

Hartnell - Giroux - Briere
vanRiemsdyk - Schenn - Voracek
Simmonds - Couturier - Read
Talbot - Gaustad - Wellwood
Rinaldo

Timonen - Bourdon
Coburn - Grossmann
Meszaros - Carle
Gustafsson

Bryzgalov
Bobrovsky

You also forgot Nash