



For a league where one of the main complaints over the years has been the lack of available defensemen on the trade market, it’s actually a decent time to go shopping.



It’s widely known that Justin Faulk is available in Carolina — a potential trade with Anaheim falling through recently — and that the Sabres are listening to offers on Rasmus Ristolainen, a player seemingly open to a change of scenery.



But don’t forget the Columbus Blue Jackets in all this. They’re 10-11 deep in NHL blueliners and outside of Seth Jones and Zach Werenski, who aren’t going anywhere, it’s anyone’s guess on the remaining lot. There’s Ryan Murray, David Savard, Markus Nutivaara, Scott Harrington, Dean Kukan, Adam Clendening, Vladislav Gavrikov, Gabriel Carlsson and the sense is Andrew Peeke isn’t that far off from making the jump. One of those D could certainly move within the next few weeks. Of that lot, I would...