The UFA market is a who's who of crap bottom pairing defensemen and RFA is always a terrible way to go so I think it is either trade or go with the guys you have.
If the team is fine with the rebuild I think they should go with:
Brodie-Gio
Sarich-Trade
Cundari-UFA/Smith
Breen
I would like to see Butler and Wideman moved for anything. Late pick, crap prospect get off the team.
It would be nice to pick up a defenseman to move into the second pairing as Smith/Cundari probably aren't really ready for that and Sarich is a warrior but better to play select minutes at this point.
Depending on the contract they would want if you could get a Leopold/Lydman/Scuderi type on a 2 year deal as a stop gap I would look at that as an option.
Basically time to let some guys sink or swim and deal with the learning curves now while the team is going to struggle.
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