[GranteedEV]

Realistic hopes:

- Get Ferland and Bennett re-upped to team-friendly deals with notable term.

- Bring in Ben Bishop at 5M x 4Y and let Rittich or Gillies back him up.

- Fire Sigalet and get someone as goalie coach who has had real NHL success at the position in the last 15 years. Maybe bring Niklas Backstrom back if he has retired; he seemed to like this group.

- Don't lose Kulak to Expansion. We need him on our bottom pair next year.

- Bring back Stone if he's cheap, but DO NOT sign him to 4.5 x 5 or something stupid like that. Oh, and stay the heck away from Alzner too. If Stone isn't cheap, then go into next season with an open roster spot. Good teams do it every year.

- Bring in Kevan Miller for our bottom pair as the right D. Kulak-Miller as the third pair.

- Bring back Kris Versteeg and Alex Chiasson on cheap deals

- Get Vegas to take on Brouwer's albatross in expansion instead. Offer whatever it takes (Except Kulak/Jankowski/Parsons/Kylington/Andersson/Core). Maybe Hickey's rights will be a nice little incentive if he has instilled a lack of confidence in getting him signed.

- Trade Matt Stajan and Lance Bouma for any assets you can get so that there is a roster spot for Jankowski and Lazar both.

On a more unlikely list of hopes, that I'm are aren't about to happen because the standards are pretty low in this org:

- Let Brian Burke go and bring in someone who doesn't still think we need to fill the bottom of our lineup with Bolligs, Engellands, Bartkowskis, and Brouwers to compete in the west.

- Let Treliving go and bring in someone with more vision than turning us into the 2012 Arizona Coyotes.

- Let Gulutzan go and bring in someone with more vision than turning us into the 2015 Vancouver Canucks.