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With all due respect to Lidstrom, he was not the reason nor the cornerstone for us winning the Cups in 97 and 98. He was great, but he was only one part in a machine. I agree, you are offering way too much for Hamilton. As much as you need a "Hamilton" on the blueline, you also desperately need a Larkin in the top 6. There is nobody in the system that could replace Larkin. We'll draft our version of Hamilton (hopefully Bouchard) and we'll still have Larkin. Win-Win.

I just want to see ovie finally win his cup

Except I wouldn't substitute Larkin for a 1st rounder. Larkin is a known, he's a top line or at worst, a 2nd line center. A 1st round pick is always a risk. Could bust, could boom, which is why a mid first rounder is worth less than Larkin. And why I wouldn't do that deal. Would I give up what Calgary gave up for him? Yes, I would. But either Larkin or 6th overall plus our two seconds? Too rich for my blood.

Great pickup for them. Scheifele-Stastny-Little is the kind of center depth that makes me nerd out. I love center depth. I think it's every bit as important as depth on the back end. Jets are stacked at C, W, D. It's nuts. Scheifele, Stastny, Little. Laine, Wheeler, Ehlers, Connor. Byfuglien, Trouba, Morrissey. Cheveldayoff's patience is finally paying off.

https://www.tsn.ca/off-season-game-plan-detroit-red-wings-1.1083279

We have the chance to draft THREE defenders in the 1st two rounds that are already better than what we have on our current team. Bouchard, Mat Samuelsson and Calen Addison. Now that doesn't mean they'll bump three of our D out this season, but add to those three, Cholowski and Hronek and the outside remote possibility that we could land Karlsson, we really don't need to take away from our top 6 future to add another D. Holland could go with Hughes, Boqvist or Dobsobn with #6 and they too are also better than anyone we have on D currently. The remains, you don't trade away players like Larkin.

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sulak and hronek looks great in wch, i tink they are nhl ready. keep jensen and dekyser. kronwall and green is not good enough anymore, we need to sign best possible free agent d-man, 2 of them, if we only can get one then go and find a zaitsev in khl. svechnikov is nhl ready, even thought he did not dominate in AHL i think he can play in NHL, he got some world class skills. please trade nyquist, he still got some value. Free agent - free agent/zaitsev level player from khl Sulak - Hronek Jensen - DeKeyser Mantha - Larkin - Andreas Svechnikov - Zetterberg - Nyquist trade Frk - Nielsen - Rasmussen/draft pick 2018 Bertuzzi - Helm - Abdelkalder

The problem though is that I don't see 7 years at $7-7.5M all that unreasonable, and is likely the bare minimum he will get. I can totally see Carlson getting $8.5M+. That's when you have to ask yourself if you really want to sign him to that sort of contract. I'd love to have Carlson on this team, but I'm not sure if I'd be comfortable giving him that much for that long. But again, I'd definitely consider it if we could offload a couple bigger contracts. I agree with everything else. We desperately need a high end defenseman to lead and teach the kids, and I'm not sure how confident I am in Kronwall or Daley being that player. This defense could (should) get really young, really quick, and I believe Carlson would be a good mentor to lead players like Cholowski and *Bouchard*... I honestly think Holland would be more willing / able to trade Ericsson than DeKeyser. At this point, I'd be shocked, no scrap that, a little surprised if Green is re-signed. Yeah, I'd move any and all of Daley, Helm, Nyquist and Athanasiou, among others. Free up cap space and roster spots. Accelerate this rebuild...

He'll have to beat out Mrazek for the job.

Caps in 7

He'd fit right in in Pittsburgh.