Do players ever get moved positionally from offense to defense?
In baseball and even football, I feel like it's not uncommon to see guys that played one position most of their lives get shuffled somewhere else to keep them in the lineup. I was just curious with all the talk I've seen of Eklund and Graf as potential trade bait, would it be out of this world to just move them to the D position since they are fairly defensively capable players in order to keep them in our locker room and fill a need at the same time?
I know this is probably a rediculous question and the answer is likely no, but I just figured I'd ask. I've seen so many of the same threads started over who we should draft and who we should trade, but I never saw this idea brought up at all (probably because it's futile), but I figured I'd ask if any of you know anyone successfully changed into a different position like that?
At the end of the day I believe in our organization to make the best decision moving forward. I would hate to part with Ecky or Graf though. Something tells me they would be better at the D position than Klingburg or Leddy lol