Dan Wallace: Time Paul

God let him make several moves. Over and over again in the past 6 years or so, the Wild have made a single move here and there, thinking they are on the verge of something. But their not, many issues keep popping up. Not all at the same time. REBUILD is the only option in my opinion. Please let it be a Christmas miracle and happen NOW.

Who's on the trade block in your opinion(s)?

The entire roster...and I mean everyone (except maybe Dumba). A lot of people will say that Granlund should be untouchable, but I would at least entertain the idea of trading him and see what it fetches. The biggest problems are, the guys you want to trade have done absolutely nothing to make their trade value any good. If Fenton really wants to get anything back in trades, he is going to have to trade the players that are worth something. Niederreiter has been playing like he is completely lost, and Coyle just in never going to live up to his potential, as JEE has not really shown anything either.

The vets are pulling their weight, as guys like Staal, Koivu, Parise and Suter are statiscally at the top of the roster. But it should be the younger guys like Coyle, Nino and JEE that should be matching the vets, stats-wise, or scoring more. But they aren't. I still think Leafs would take something like Spurgeon, Nino and Ryan Murphy for Nylander. Maybe a 3rd Rd pick as well. Next you ship Coyle to Boston, who I have heard has a really interest in him, for Ryan Donato and Kevan Miller. You bring Kunin up to be the 3rd line RW. Here is the new lineup...

Zucker - Staal - Granlund
Parise - Koivu - Nylander
Greenway - Donato - Kunin
Foligno - Fehr - Eriksson Ek - Brown

Suter - Dumba
Brodin - Pateryn
Seeler - Miller - Prosser

Then if Koivu is actually out with a torn MCL (read that somewhere today), then JEE moves to 3rd line C, Nylander becomes #2 C and Donato moves to #2 RW. Going into the future, the forwards are pretty much the same, but starting next year, Pateryn goes back to 3rd pairing with Seeler and you hope that Belpedio can move into the 2nd pairing as a right handed Dman...and Miller takes over the 7th Dman for Prosser, who I believe is going to retire after this year.

Yep, pretty much everyone aside from the unmovable pieces should be considered. Well, at least players that might garner interest. Easy ones are obviously Nino, Coyle and Staal. But like Gus said, pretty much the entire roster. The guys that should fetch a lot more interest would be Zucker, Granlund, Spurgeon, Dumba. One way or another this roster needs an overhaul sooner rather than later.

Here's hoping management can potentially learn from their division rivals. Three years ago the Hawks are Cup winners. Now they are one of if not the worst team in the league. Lots of familiar names still there. My point it when the skills decline, it seems to happen pretty quickly. Management needs to determine if the talent is there with the current roster or maybe a player or two away and if they have the team to compete for a Cup otherwise rebuild/reload for the future. Its a small window.

Go get Kapanen