Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:You want to have an impact trade for a D-man? Make Kadri the main piece. He's coming off a record goal-getting year, plays a 2-way game, and is signed for several more years at a very reasonable price.
This frees Nylander to move to center, where he should be, and opens his spot on the top line for Kapanen.
Although I am not entirely sold on signing Tavares, if you use Kadri to get a top-paring defenseman then you can use all that cap space on Tavares if you want. If he re-signs with NYI before the deadline, then try to re-sign Bozak as 3C.
Sure it's a gamble if you can't get either Tavares or Bozak or at least Bozak's equivalent, but to me Kadri is our most promising trade chip.
If he brought in an under-30 top-3 RD with some term, yeah I'd consider moving him for sure.