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Good take from former Tampa GM Brian Lawton: "Yzerman is not going to force things, he's going to do something similar to what he did with the Lightning. He's gonna build something to last. That will be his goal with Detroit. He's not gonna do anything crazy, he's not going to run out and sign the top free agents. You're not gonna see a top guy like Erik Karlsson signing in Detroit. He's gonna focus on his current group and putting the right processes in place to returning the Red Wings to the glory days they know so well." Paraphrasing of course. Good take Bry man

Been watching too much Trailer Park Boys and Letterkenny I guess

Lucky. My mom only bought me a PS1 with 3 games and now everyone at school thinks I'm hashtag poor.

Hey me n Blake are going to Connor's house later. His mom's making pancakes! Wanna come? We can razor scooter in the school parking lot after.

@krsmith17 he may honestly just be trolling like he does. This is what someone in grade 3 would posit. Sad!

He's having his jesus is back fan-boy moment. Yzerman's just gonna magically make it all better again, ya know, cause Yzerman. Most of us here realize it's going to take years of shrewd building before what he's advocating happens For the #4 worst team in the league ladden with years of bad contracts it is

Hear that everyone? The rebuild is over. Yzerman's here now and suddenly were gonna sign Karlsson then spend and trade our way out of a hole. Seems like a good plan...

Maybe he and AA can make love, which forms their offspring; A universal world baby that can actually play well rounded hockey

Probably have to include Chabot EDIT: Really like how Makar is playing for Colorado in this playoffs too

FIRE THIS HACK JOB REEEEEEEEEEEEE

I highly doubt he's parting with a 22 year old near point-per-game Larkin or our 1st round picks for anyone anytime soon This is 100% a slipper slope fallacy. You're falsely asserting that signing Karlsson is going to snowball into a magical chain of events where we get all kinds of superstars. Your argument isn't based on anything other than nostalgia and wishful thinking. And @krsmith17 is way ahead of your point saying this is even less likely an outcome to happen in the cap era. You're completely misrepresenting Yzerman's time with the Bolts. His first years were spent buying out large contracts like Lecavalier, signing a plethora of depth guys to fill holes, experimenting with goaltenders and coaches, and steadily drafting well. He did not enter a basement team stricken with bad contracts and start signing potential HOF Dman. Far from that. It was not until later that Yzerman was able and willing to tweak his roster in a significant way. In this regards the primary difference to me was that Holland seems to prefer FA when adding, whereas Yzerman more often opted to trade n sign. More of your slippery slope argument. The only thing you got right is we are not getting Karlsson. And I think other folks on this board, Erik Karlsson, and Steve Yzerman understand the real reasons behind that better than you do.

What does he know, he thinks Prince is cute

Well there would probably be vets who can be cleared out one way or the other first, but to honor your question: Athanasiou first, then Mantha

Setkov is big AF thou and we will need a new Jon Ericsson soon... I think they're called Chaldeans

Holmstrom leaving the Griffins to join HV71 Too bad he couldn't pan out, another Homer was too good to be true I guess

That one Danish kid we got in the system is an absolute unit. Not Mr. Frans of course.

his name is adam "fox"

1. = All the reasons why we should in theory pursue and sign a superstar like Erik Karlsson 2. Lol we suck = All the reasons we won't sign a superstar like Erik Karlsson

So does this mean he starts next season in the NHL?

Can't go a full season without one Big Snake reference

Seize the memes of production with Karl

Who would rather sign Vanek or Karlsson?

I'm kinda surprised more people don't have the attitude of "when a bonafide star is available for nothing, you sign him" in regards to Karlsson. Regardless of injuries, he's still only 28 and producing at a superstar clip. Would you have passed on Crosby when he had all those concussions if he was made available? If Brent Burns was available over Karlsson would you be gun ho for him? I'm not gonna be mad if we don't purse him, just sorta surprised.

Only you do that I expect Florida to go superhard after Panarin and Bob