LeftWinger

Jake Walman has been activated. Wings now have 8 defensemen on the roster. Still at 23 players, so no "need" to send one to GR, but once others start returning from injury, I wonder which defenseman gets waived?

Yes, it'll be interesting to see how we do once Bertuzzi, Vrana and Fabbri are back.

We'll be lucky to get a 5th (maybe 4th) for Zadina now.

Great win today. Raymond, Suter, Kubalik with goals. Husso with the shutout. First time this season one of our G's got 2 starts in a row. Who'd of thought Red Wings would be 3rd in division after 11 games. Early, yes, but I do believe we're in for a good ride! New guys are paying off so far! Yzerman continues to fleece the entire NHL!

Tampa places ABB on waivers again.

Keep in mind, in 2 seasons they'll have to re-sign Raymond and Seider. If they have similar (hopefully better) seasons each year, they'll get at least $8M each. Look at the Stutzle contract and compare his numbers with Raymond. I can see Bertuzzi being dealt for this reason. Will need to save cap for these 2.

Erne, Walman? If that is all it'd take, Yzerman would be on the phone already. What would the "sweetener" be? Shoot, I'd give them all of Erne, Walman, Smith AND Zadina for Kane. Then extend Kane for a couple more years.

If you read it again, That's what I started out saying. He's is going somewhere as a top 6. He doesn't belong in the bottom 6. Then in the spirit of rumors I suggested it might be interesting to put the Hawks players together. I picked "third" line because Raymond is entrenched on Larkin's wing and Suter isn't 2C.

Honestly, Kane has to go somewhere to be a top 6 guy. It'd be pointless to have him in the bottom 6. I guess you could form a 3rd line of: Kubalik-Suter-Kane ...and see if there could be any "magic" in the Hawks playing together. That being said, in the spirit of rumors, I'd give them Smith along with Zadina and the protected 1st. Erne could be the 13th forward with a 4th line of: Rasmussen-Veleno-Sundqvist

Well I'm not that excited that I cackled, but I like the number. For $1.8M, 20 goals is acceptable.

Ya, they could trade him still, but I just meant the sub-2 million pretty much says you haven't earned the big raise, show us and we'll see. Very tradeable cap too!

guess we can't argue with only $1.825M "Show me" contract! Let's hope a new staff helps him fill some nets!

IMO Smith is out. He will not get a spot over either Berggren or Veleno. Maybe he'll clear waivers and be in GR.

Zadina had plenty of opportunities. What he has now is a chance to see if he can thrive under a new coaching staff. If he again fails to at least fill some nets, then it may be time for a scenery change.

I'm not sure if people are just trying to be funny or if their Wings history is clouded. Either way, it's been far too long since 2008! Bring Stanley home!