[Caged Great]

The players I am most interested are Carey, Warning, Oksanen, Taker, and Van Riemsdyk. Any time you have a relatively weak defensive prospect pool, getting any of the 3 bigger D (Oksanen, Taker, VR) will help make it better. Taker VR and Oksanen would probably slot in right behind Sieloff and Wotherspoon on the depth chart right now, and with the lack of qualified options beyond them, it never hurts.

Warning and Carey are in the same category of prospect as Cory Conacher was. Some skill, not overly big players. With the pair of them, worst case is that they can be used in a trade or be a good scorer with the Heat, especially with guys like Knight etc on the verge of ending their AHL careers.

With these guys, it's doubtful that any of them become impact players. What they do provide though is more qualified competition for the other prospects, and possibly a useful roster player.