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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Honest answer is they need their own version of the Hamilton, Ferland, Fox for Lindholm, Hanifin trade.
Something around Draisaitl + for 2 cheaper young core pieces.
That is to start and not any easy trade to make. Lots of risk involved.
But if they can get similar results as Treliving did, then maybe they can avoid rebuild number whatever they are on.
But there is so much work to do.
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Carlina needs more high end talent. If I was Edmonton I'd do something like Draisaitl+Klefbom for Teravainen, Slavin and a couple young b+ prospects.
You don't lose too much offense with Draisaitl to Teuvo as Draisaitl is effectively a winger now anyways. Slavin is a wash with Klefbom but then you get some potential firepower fending on the other young assets coming back.
At the end of the day though, to improve your team you need to deal from an area of strength to an area of weakness to balance your team better. The main areas are centers, wingers, defense, goaltending, prospects and picks.
How do you shore up wingers, defense, goaltending when your only surplus is centers? Their prospects are average at best, no excess picks and if they remove a real center (Mcdavid or Nuge) they now would have a hole at center. Therefore, the only real interchangeable piece is going to be Draisaitl who is very valuable. While he's valuable, you're not going to plug a hole at D and on the wings, so playoffs aren't really possible without nothing the future which already looks bleak.
The ONLY answer is rebuild or at least retool