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I probably would've taken him over Williams but I don't think he would've made much of a difference.

I've always said Dan. I did notice they've been calling him Danny more lately, though. His name on Yahoo is listed as Danny also. Maybe he requested the change.

DetNews:

I bet you were clamoring for Darryl Bootland to be here the last few years too. How's he doing over in Europe?

Why do you assume he's going to be playing in the NHL?

A lot of people seem to be forgetting that they're 5-1-1 at home. Plus, they started the season in Sweden.

MLive: Detroit News:

Andy Sutton, Bryan Allen, Greg Zanon, or Shane Hnidy.

New Jersey won't move him, especially with Martin out.

I think they're going to have to wait a while for the playoff/non-playoff teams to sort themselves to make a move. A few guys I'd look at: - Greg Zanon and Shane Hnidy (not sure if they have the puck moving ability to fit here) - Bryan Allen (He's a prick but he'd be a good fit) - Brendan Witt and Andy Sutton These teams (Florida, Minnesota, and NYI) very likely aren't going to make the playoffs. These are the guys I think the Wings might look at if Lilja can't go.

Yeah, if only the Wings had traded for Fedorov in '08. They probably would've won the Cup!

I don't think the Wings have the right pieces. The players Florida would be interested in are Filppula, Ericsson, Kindl, and McCollum. I can't see the Wings moving any of them for Horton.

I thought Toronto would be decent this season. Guess I was wrong. Komisarek and Beauchemin were supposed to significantly upgrade that defense, but I've always thought both are overrated. Of course they're going to look good playing alongside Markov and Niedermayer/Pronger. Plus, they paid close to a franchise price for Kessel who isn't a franchise player. Burke is overrated. Always has been.

The Wings were so lucky that Legace didn't accept that 4 year, $2.5 million per deal they offered him before the '06 playoffs. Legace must be kicking himself over that.

ESPN.com has sucked for a while.

Yeah, this really is a horrible list. Lidstrom at 27?

Why was this bumped?

The Sharks already had cap issues, but this is a pretty lateral move for them salary-wise. Cheechoo and Michalek make a combined $7.33 million while Heatley makes $7.5 million. They're going to have to dump more salary.

Well, Heatley and Thornton should be great together. Maybe this is the move that finally gets the Sharks over the hump.

Those are all Chinese knockoffs.

Look out.

Shanahan-Datsyuk-Draper Samuelsson-Zetterberg-Holmstrom Williams-Lang-Yzerman Maltby-Franzen-Cleary Mowers Lidstrom-Lilja Schneider-Chelios Lebda-Woolley Cross Legace Osgood With a healthy defense, it would've probably been this: Lidstrom-Kronwall Schneider-Fischer Lilja-Chelios Lebda/Rivers/Woolley Yes, you're reading right, Draper did play some first line right wing that year. I believe he rotated with Cleary and Franzen occasionally. What a paper tiger that team was... but if the defense were healthy they would've been better in the playoffs.

I think you're underestimating the '07 Ducks. I think they would've beaten the '09 Penguins. Hell, I think the '09 Ducks would've beaten the '09 Penguins. That '07 Ducks team was extremely well-built.

I think Calgary, San Jose, and Chicago are the biggest threats to the Wings in the west. One of these years San Jose is going to get over the hump. People called the Wings and Yzerman chokers for years, too.

According to TSN, Bertuzzi has been signed. I'm closing this thread.