Jason Gregor

I don't like him at $5 million.

So I would re-sign Kapanen because I don't think he's going to cost you very much.

And he's been pretty consistent here the last few years.

He's a former first-round pick who maybe took a little bit longer to figure out the consistency factor, but if I'm paying him $2 million, I'm fine with that.

Then you've got to look and say, okay, we don't need another defenseman if you have Murphy and Nurse.

You've got your defense core, and you can keep them.

And then if you...

They need a third-line center, and they need a right-shot center.

Now, there are some guys out there.

You can get Noel Achari.

You can get Kevin Stenland.

And you might have to pay a bit more for Stenland, but he's coming off a little bit of a down year in Utah.

But where Edmonton struggled with small areas of the game, they didn't have a right-shot center, especially to help on the penalty kill.

Because then you had to have lefties on their offside.

Because most teams in the offensive zone, their best center is a left shot.

So he likes to be to the right of the goalie.

But that's on the forehand of a lefty, right?

And so I looked up Stenland.

Stenland, two years ago, was 62% in the face-off zone, in the defensive zone, and 58% last year.

He took 657 defensive zone face-offs in Utah.