With sturm out of the year, bergeron imo out of the year also, lucic still hurt, kessel sick , and one of ward,ference always out we really need to make a trade for a piece or two. Defensively we are as sound as it gets in the league. Even with unskilled players any team with discipline and good goaltending can be good defensively. (look at minnesota)
losing to washington the other night 2-1 and recently only winning games against teams like islanders by 1 really makes you think we need more offensive minded players that won't hurt us on defense . (cuz st. pierre, karsums, sobotka, noki, yelle, axelson) are not doing it.
Some players we could seriously use are
Michael Nylander - Could give up lashoff, karsums, 4th round pick for example
Keith Tkatchuk - same as above
Eric Cole - Will take above and higher pick like 2nd round
Brendan Shannahan would have been really sweet pickup but we lost out to nj.
Also keep in mind we have manny fernandez to use as trade bait. Tim Thomas i think can be trusted, has been durable and he is the guy i would like to resign after this year.
who else could we use? (prob get an expiring contract needing cash to resign kessel, krecji, hunwhick, thomas or get a young cheaper contract we could think about having for the long term)