San Jose with a Dubas-familiar name on the trade block?

Post-July 1, the Penguins forward group makes a lot of sense. It’s overstocked with bodies at the moment but that “problem” could be easily solved by moving a veteran like Bryan Rust and/or Rickard Rakell to clear some room and set themselves up for the future. The depth chart more or less lines up.

The same can’t be said about this look of blueliners, there’s a lot more to resolve still this summer on the backend when checking the PuckPedia depth chart:

This list doesn’t include Owen Pickering or Vladislav Kolyachonok, but does that really matter?