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Howard is in a contract year, don't think he will like splitting time with someone when he wants to play the most he can and the best he can to get a nice fat paycheck next year...he would really hate if he lost his job to Fat Boy and it would suck if he just said F/U and walked as a UFA....

No thanks to Gausted....there are too many other bottom 6 players available that are better...but if we get to plan D, then sure....

Nah the breakdown will be if Parise and Suter BOTH go elsewhere, worse yet to the PENS, worse yet if Ken Holland kicks the tires and gets no one.... Then the forum will break down.....yikes!

How stupid....it aint a hard decision....everyone is gonna offer you $7M-$9M dollars average, you just have to decide which offer to take....I know you don't want to make the wrong decision, but you just got to look at what's better for you. In Detroit you will be #1 on the Blueline, make just as much money here than there, you have superstars to play with here (none with noodles for brains) and you have a more consistent winning tradition and playoff appearances...The better coach, the better goalie, he is your Team USA teammate as well, the better owner...hindsight is always 20/20 but don't hols up anyone, because whichever team you go to, the others want to go on to plan B and if you delay then those plan B's will be gone....don't hold up either team, make a decision July 1st so the other's can move on.... I for one will be PISSED if Suter decides to wait a few days as the Garrison's get swooped up (not that he is a replacement for Suter, but is a backup plan) and then he chooses a different team leaving us with Quincey and Kindl to round out the top 6....HIGHLY PISSED!

Trade for Nash, sign Semin/Mueller/Prust/Suter/Garrison....game on!

I would take the risk....especially Meuller....I was one hoping Holland drafted Latendresse in 05' instead of Kindl.... The cool thing is, Detroit is $8M UNDER the Cap FLOOR...so they HAVE to sign some folks to get above the floor! Let's just hope it's not overpaying crap like Quincey or Hudler that gets them to the floor....

Not that this is NHL 2013 nor would Columbus accept a bunch of junk, but I would love to acquire Nash somehow, along with getting rid of Franzen, Cleary, Mursak, Emmeton, Kindl, a prospect or two and draft picks... Man if some kind of combo of those players/picks would get Nash here, I would be on cloud 900! With the open spots we have now an then dumping Franzines and Cleary's salary, we could add Parise/Meuller/Semin along with having Nash....ya ya, total fantasy world, I know, but wow that would send a message to the NHL! edit: nah, nevermind, I cannot fit all those guys under the Cap on capgeek....but if we lost out on the Parise sweeps and still acquired Nash we could get Semin and Meuller and Garrison and Suter... also for some odd reason, I go to "cap calculator" on capgeek and Parise is not listed under NJD as a UFA.... so I came up with this crazy roster! (I only brought Sproul up because he was the next highest D on the prospects list....I let Quincey walk and I traded Kindl) FORWARDS Alexander Semin ($5.500m) / Pavel Datsyuk ($6.700m) / Rick Nash ($7.800m) Valtteri Filppula ($3.000m) / Henrik Zetterberg ($6.083m) / Damien Brunner ($1.000m) Drew Miller ($0.838m) / Peter Mueller ($2.750m) / Todd Bertuzzi ($2.075m) Gustav Nyquist ($0.875m) / Darren Helm ($2.125m) / Brandon Prust ($1.200m) Justin Abdelkader ($1.250m) / Patrick Eaves ($1.200m) / DEFENSEMEN Niklas Kronwall ($4.750m) / Ryan Suter ($8.000m) Ian White ($2.875m) / Jason Garrison ($0.985m) Brendan Smith ($0.875m) / Jonathan Ericsson ($3.250m) Ryan Sproul ($0.925m) / GOALTENDERS Jimmy Howard ($2.250m) Al Montoya ($0.875m) ------ SALARY CAP: $70,200,000; CAP PAYROLL: $67,180,833; BONUSES: $320,000 CAP SPACE (23-man roster): $3,019,167

Columbus said earlier today that they WOULD trade within the Central if the price was right....I wonder what that price would be? Nash would be great here! We got plenty of cap space, plus whatever space we'd gain after the trade! Trade for Nash, Sign Parise and Suter, then round out the roster with lower level salaries.....Wonder if Garrison will cost less than Quincey? I sure do like Meuller as well... Wonder how the payroll would look with Parise/Nash/Semin/Suter/Garrison/Meuller on it? blue adams you out there? All depends on who we would have to give up for Nash too....sure wish they'd take Frazen off our hands, but I have a feeling it would start with Filppula...

http://www.kuklaskorner.com/index.php/tmr/comments/red_wings_gm_ken_holland_talks_holes_with_pleiness/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter A little update from Ken Holland on his UFA hunt.... BYE BYE Hudler!

this says it all right here...he paces himself instead of hive his all all seaon long...he plays hard when he wants to and then takes a couple of games off...he needs to be traded, but he won't be...

In case it hasn't been said.....FRK Justin Schultz...

Meuller would be very nice to have here! It'll move Helm back with Abby too!

I have been asking for Moen since three of four years ago....but here is my bottom six guys I would love to see one or two of: Moen Meuller Prust

Speaking of out! It's not official until July 1st that he is gone but I have been waiting since the summer of 2008 to do this: http://www.kuklaskorner.com/index.php/tmr/comments/red_wings_evening_news_from_pleiness_hudlers_gone_on_rfas_and_the_schultz_p/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

I would say with Holmstrom and Hudler out and if Holland signs 2 - 3 UFA forwards that would push Emmerton and Mursak out. Now, I still haven't heard anything about Eaves head injury, maybe he will start the season on LTIR, not sure... The roster is 23 players, 14 forwards, 7 defensemen and 2 goalies. Dats, Z, Franzen, Fil, Cleary, Bertuzzi, Miller, Eaves, Helm, Abdelkader, Nyquist, Brunner, UFA, UFA....or any combo of UFA Emmerton/Mursak.... I think Holland/Babcock should give Nyquist every chance to make the club over Emmerton/Mursak and Holland should get two ufa's. a legit top 6 and a bottom 6.... Obviously we want Parise, beyond that maybe Doan/Prust/Semin/Mueller/Moen.... I'd personally like to see Parise and Mueller...No Parise, then Doan/Semin & Mueller, which would push Nyquist back to GR. Unless I am counting wrong... It is up in the air what will happen with us, we heard news today that Holland is interested in Nash...that would open a huge can of worms on spots in the roster...Of course there is always a trade to dump assets too... Crazy stuff is gonna happen!

LeBrun is reporting that the first 7 years are $7M per and then tapering off the final 3 years....

agree...if I can get to like Chelios, I can get to like anyone, besides it wouldn't be the first Red Wings player that I had disgust for...

So would Parise and Datsyuk, difference is Datsyuk doesn't have soup for brains! Nor does he dive all over the place, nor does he start things and run away... Parise can either play with a Man or play with a weaselly crybaby who is one hit away form missing another 60 games...It's his choice.

Tweets are gonna be flying Sunday! Hell I got like 20 tweets and RT's when Cindy agreed to terms...I was about ready to throw my phone across the room the next time an analyst tweeted about Cindy! Ok, he agreed, its done... I am gonna have 2000 tweets Sunday....sheesh! ReTweet this assholes!

Too much for him, but that is where salaries are going for these mid to low level players....

I am not counting Parise out yet....sure he is gonna get a lot of offers and I am already set with my roster if we don't get him, but util that beautiful large lady sings....it ain't over!

Doan/Semin/Suter/Prust/Garrison....they are all still out there...they want Stanley...WE want Stanley...it's like the stars are aligned!

Oh! I thought you meant something else...Yes, I know two men...Manny's father in law (not that he knows too much anymore, but still gets elite access to the Joe) and my buddy dates (on again off again) Dan Dekeyser's sister. But that's all...

Sounds like premadonna Lindros....and he ended up concussed and no Stanley Cups...let alone beat the FRK up by his own teammates in Philly for fornicating with Brind'Amour's wife....car accident my ass, He got knocked the frk out then shipped to the Rags... (BTW inside source on the info) Wonder if Schultz will get some or tons of boo's the first time he skates at the Joe?