Wings will win this one. Bernier will be the number one star and Hutchinson will s*** the bed... That's what needs to happen... I foolishly bet on this one, like every Wings vs Leafs game...
A good piece on Lafreniere:
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nhl/news/world-juniors-2020-canada-rimouski-forward-alexis-lafreniere-putting-up-impressive-numbers-in-pre-draft-year/a0lvmqqw85901dcr681pfw0s4
It's fitting that the future face of the Red Wings franchise is basically the love child of Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg.
I agree that the Comrie trade looks kinda dumb now. But I figure the market for Saarijarvi was otherwise nonexistent and Yzerman felt it was addition by subtraction (i.e. freeing up Saarijarvi's spot and minutes, chipping away at the logjam). Also, we have a bunch of players who should be able to fetch us mid-to-late-draft picks around trade deadline time.
I think SY just took a chance to get a good look if he is worth keeping or not. He obviously "impressed" not enough and the loss of Saarijarvi isn´t hurting our long term future. He gambled and it didn´t work out, but still worth trying.
While it isn't ideal to lose someone after two games off the waivers, but Comrie probably wasn't the solution to our long term goalie problem. But Yzerman better solves the problem this summer unless he wants to prolong the tank. Howard is declining and unlikely to get back to his former self and Bernier is too mediocre to build a cup winner around.
This is pretty common knowledge man... I guess you'd actually have to watch games and follow the team closely to be aware of things like that though...
Saarijarvi had no value, and wasn't a part of the future. Losing Comrie, likely wasn't either, but I would have preferred to keep him over one of Howard / Bernier, who definitely aren't a part of our future...