If you make a trade in season, you make a lesser move and hope that maybe it shakes things up enough to wake guys up. Sometimes a non-core piece can bring a room together (or tear it apart). Look at the 2007 Flames, acquiring Brad Stuart on paper was a huge win, but it is believed that trading Ference messed with chemistry in the room.
I'm not going to make a proposal as I am bad at those, but maybe someone like Jesper Fast from the Rangers.
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