The following players are likely to be cut to make roster space for drafting other players. The ask in a trade will probably be a 1-round improvement on a pick (in other words about as cheap as it gets).
Team-Pos Player (age)
BUF-LW Jeff Skinner (31)
BOS-LW Pat Maroon (36)
CAR-LW Max Comtois (25)
NSH-C Juuso Parssinen (23)
PIT-D Jack Rathbone (24)
NYI-D Sebastian Aho (28)
EDM-D Cody Ceci (30)
CBJ-RW Kirill Dolzhenkov (20)