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Rasmussen is making the team. Holland and Blashill have stopped just short of saying he's guaranteed a spot. I'll be really surprised if Zadina doesn't at least get a nine-game audition. I think he's absolutely NHL-ready. I think he makes the team and sticks. I think he's capable of having a Calder-caliber rookie season right now. He can score goals, sell tickets, put butts in the seats, get people excited about Red Wings hockey. The Wings want to score more goals. They think they can be a respectable team if they can get the power play working and are able to roll three scoring lines. They've said they have big plans for Rasmussen as a net-front guy on the PP and that Green's ability to feed him pucks in front is one reason why Green was brought back. Zadina would give us that much more scoring depth and could help us that much more on the power play. The Wings love Zadina. Hicketts will likely make the team as our 7D and push Jensen for the 6D spot. Hronek could get jobbed, but oh well. FWIW, Blashill has compared Hronek to Will Butcher and suggested Hronek could do for our power play what Butcher did for the Devils' power play. There's also a lot of time between now and opening night. A lot of time to swing a trade or two, which could open up a spot or two. Usually I'm on the "Wings hate kids" bus, but I'm not really feeling it at the present moment.

Yzerman was lazy and he sucked. Should've traded him for Yashin when we had the chance.

AA is lazy and he sucks.

Face off.

So is your face.

Marc Bergevin and Peter Chiarelli are still GMs.

Do not want.

Parity is a lie. Eliminate the salary cap. I demand a lockout.

I was expecting two years, but I didn't think he'd get $6M. Interesting.

I'm assuming it's just standard negotiating/posturing and Chicago isn't actually out on him. FWIW: I imagine one of our top young forwards is the ask (Mantha, like you suggested) and that we might be able to knock that down a bit. Not sure AA/Svechnikov + Nyquist gets them to bite, but, yeah, I'd say that's roughly what Faulk is worth to the Wings.

That would be my biggest concern with him, yeah.

*crosses Faulk off list*

I'm just looking at the bigger picture. Maybe we could get Trouba, but does that really accelerate the rebuild? With all the top UFAs pretty much off the table and our defense -- present and future -- not looking good, the reality is starting to sink in for me: we're in for a long(ish) rebuild. Barring a miracle or two, of course. Trading within the division. Cool. Awesome. Spectacular. I'm all about this. Woo doggy. Yessir. Happy day.

max pacioretty (only 29!)

Speaking of sad... No Tavares No Karlsson No Doughty No Ekman-Larsson Defense is still s***, no elite defense prospects in the pipeline Not sure how the Wings rebuild-on-the-fly themselves out of this.

Yep, was gonna mention them, but I hate them and didn't want to waste the digital ink on them.

I'm finding it really hard to get a read on Faulk's trade value to the 'canes. Some people are saying they'd be fine with moving him for futures. Some people are saying they'd want a top forward. Whatever the case may be, I really doubt we're getting him. I think he makes more sense for a team like Edmonton.

Now I'm sad.

Trade Shanahan. He is old and lazy and he sucks and I don't know what he's still doing on the team tbh.

yep and yep

Ah, thanks for the update! I was out of the loop. Welp, guess we're boned.

Hicketts probably makes the team as our 7D. Cholowski's destined for Grand Rapids. Hronek should make the team out of camp but probably won't, which, eh, whatever.

I thought it was generally understood/assumed that Karlsson would be going to market next July...? That if he's traded, it likely wouldn't be a sign-and-trade dealy...?

No. I've chosen my new Thing I'm Going to Complain About for the Next Couple of Days and Then Never Mention Again, and no amount of devil maths can change my mind. I get where you're coming from. Break down the math and, yeah, it's not necessarily fair to say the Wings have dropped the ball on the D drafting front. At the same time, though, I like results and I don't like a lack of results. If you're losing Lidstrom and Rafalski and you're swinging and missing on Suter and you're not trading for a high-end defenseman and you're going out of your way in every interview to say, "It's a draft and develop league; there's no hockey store," I think it's perfectly fair for a fan to say, "The last time you guys drafted a really good defenseman was in the year 1999. Git Gud, losers."

,,,they haven't produced a single high-end NHL defenseman since Niklas Kronwall. It's inexcusable.