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I can't stand the Hawks but man that sucks.. I would never wish anyone's career over early. Hope they end up finding a way to help him past super potent medicine.

I think the hope is probably it being a wake up call for him to start working his butt off.. if the attitude/work ethic rumors are legit anyway.

So BUF gives them the second, and we agree to leave mrazek exposed of they trade him and dumba to us for the mrazek exposure and a couple picks/XO/prospect while they retain half bogo's salary. a guy can dream, right?

http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2017/06/20/mcphee-were-going-to-be-a-good-team/ Defense plz....

Koekkoek and Dotchin. Two promising prospects that just started getting some NHL games in last season.

Pretty much this for me too but add mittelstadt (because I think he has the most offensive upside potential in the draft) and makar (because defense ha) to glass and liljegren.. and add heiskanen to Vilardi

He should write a book.... "How to get wings fans to like your writing in one easy step." By Chuck Gormley

https://theathletic.com/68049/2017/06/19/custance-inside-ken-hollands-challenge-of-rebuilding-the-red-wings-on-the-fly/ Article written after Custance spoke with Holland. It'd probably cost too much for most anyone to be comfortable with but he says Holland hasn't ruled out trading into the top 3... any ideas what that might cost and who we'd be targeting? I imagine it'd be if patrick fell to 3 and the stars made the pick available. But I'd think a lot of teams would be interested in the pick then. Don't really think it will happen but thought it was interesting that it's "in consideration" to move into the top 3 and figure it gives us something else to talk about while we wait for Wednesday's Vegas reveal Haha beat me to it. Good article for sure. A lot around here won't be happy with it because of hollands "rebuild on the fly" mentality being reiterated.. but a good article nonetheless.

Even the damn guy picking the team thinks waiting until the NHL awards is too long

That was the first I heard of it as well. So I did a pretty small amount of research. Looks like they're adding a Detroit area site to their Chicago, Toronto, and Cleveland ones.. they seem fairly new. One subscription gets you all of them for $10 a month I think. Custance is from Michigan though and is a good journalist.. its getting decent praise from some of his former espn colleges as well. I can't really justify spending the extra money for myself personally but I'm sure it'll be a quality site.

Yeah he looks solid.. he's one of the guys I'm hoping falls to us in the second somehow. Seems like a quite a long shot though.

I feel like whoever we draft, regardless of position, will not start in the NHL. There are usually only a few each year that do and they're gone before 9. I imagine liljegren would stay in Sweden for a year and then, if development goes well, make the wings out of training camp the following year.

Yeah of the ones I listed, I don't really expect him, mittelstad, Tippett, and one of the other d-men (toss up imo) to be there at 9.. but those are guys I'll be watching closely if they begin to slide at all.

Liljegren, Haiskanen, Makar, Tippett, Glass, Mittelstad (in no particular order)

Why weren't they on our protected list?!

Yup here it is

Funny that the Avs did the same thing as us essentially.. protecting their older goalie in varlamov rather than pickard. That might be more surprising.

But that's exactly when they wouldn't want fleury

Does the islanders protecting 5 d-men say more about the depth of their young d-men or the weakness of their forwards past Tavares?

we just have to outbid minny or the ducks for their own defenseman

Right. If it's really a "wake up call" move.. why wake him up to play better if there's a chance it's for another team?

Can't really be upset about that strategy.. cap hits aside anyway.

Exactly. Makes me think there has to be a deal in place.

Right? The amount of solid defensemen unprotected makes me think Vegas will end up with a lot of picks.