DMN today says that Hatcher will NOT be offered a pre-July 1 deal. Someone else will get him in the free agency. This BLOWS.
By all accounts, this was considered a very deep draft actually, but I'm alright with trading down as opposed to staying put. If we weren't going to dump salary by moving up, there was no point in staying at 28. The player they wanted, Tamberelli, was taken by the Kings at 27.
Word is that the Stars are shopping EVERYONE short of Modano & probably Lehtinen now. That includes Guerin. I think that would be a mistake. We need to build a core around Modano; if you dump Guerin, you're back to where you were last year.