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I love how people actually think Holland/Blashill would play skilled guys over garbage 4th liners. The 4th line will be Miller-Glendening-Ott/Jurco, they will be caved in every shift and generate no offense, but they will contribute on the PK and play hard and that's all that matters to this management group.

1.8 for a guy who plays hard, PK's and win's face-offs is a bit much for me. Nearly 10 million per year for the next four years for Abby, Helm and Glendening................

GR are gonna be fun to watch with both of them suiting up. Well, I guess the way things are shaping up AA, Mantha, Bert and Sadowy will all be in GR I'll have to get an AHL season pass if that's the case.

Sadowy hype, hat trick in a scrimmage don't mean much but it's a nice first impression. He can play in GR this year right? I look forward to seeing his game develop.

Torey Krug says hello. I wouldn't call him a long shot, nor would I personally call him a guarantee. I think, having watched him play for Victoria and at the WJHC for Canada, I think he's going to make the NHL. Whether or not he's a top 4, let alone a top 6 is up to him.

Again, I know it won't happen. It's that it should, it just shows we don't have a GM who understands asset management. Shipping a guy like Vanek, who even IF he has a good season shouldn't be re-signed, would get us valuable assets that will make us better in the future. It's high time we start looking forward to building a contender again, and not falling ass backwards into the playoffs. But again, I know I'm preaching to the choir, it's more likely we trade our assets to add a vet at the deadline so we can lock up that 8th seed

You're probably right, that's Kenny's way. But it's not the smart way, we keep holding onto players and watching them walk when we could've flipped them and plugged in a young player and been just fine. Vanek especially not being home grown, if we're in the 8th seed and we can get a 1st for Vanek then in the spirit of Kenny's "retool on fly" we should do it. Then let AA and Mantha hypothetically play more down the stretch. Unfortunately the more I type, the more I realize the red Wings will never do that and that is exactly the reason we sit in mediocrity today. Bad asset management.

Personally I hope he lights it up and we can flip him at the deadline to some desperate team looking for one last piece for a 1st round pick. And I know that sounds crazy, but Paul Gaustad went for a 1st at the deadline a few years ago.

It's a two year deal, first year is 2-way and the second year is one way. He'll be the back up for the 17-18 season.

LGW is the only place arguing over advanced stats could involve the posting of a glow puck video I love it (btw I don't love advanced stats, but like anything else a useful tool for arguments over players), I remember I used to love the all star game as a kid because all the star players were shooting pucks with lasers on them into the net... I was 7 or 8 years old in '97 so give me a break for the lasers thing

From Helene St. James: Red Wings except defenseman Danny DeKeyser to file for arbitration. Would be one year because UFA next summer.

I love this signing..... we have to swing a trade for a defenceman now

It's not bad enough that I'm hungover and a year older, but this day has not gone well for the Wings I'm preparing myself for Hudler and Quincey to be signed within the hour haha

Does any team value PKing as much as the Red Wings?? I value this thing called goal scoring, and we didn't do s*** today that will help that. Just for the love of god Blashill play the kids more next season, that would be fine.

Ken talks about wanting to get a bit bigger, maybe get more offense. We get a soft pass first player, I knew on Wednesday when Stamkos re-signed in Tampa that this would be the likely outcome so I don't really care that much.

Jimmy Murphy is full of s***. But Panthers have been talking turkey with Ekblad and I wouldn't be surprised if that was legit.

I thought we'd be linked to him too. Maybe the price is too high?

Hope he's part of our haul tomorrow, but whenever Buffalo is involved in rumors I get nervous that moron Tim Murray would offer him 8mil/7yrs... we'll soon see.

I'm punting the ball in that scenario, neither is a good contract. I understand you have to pay "market value" but that's for impact forwards, not a 2nd line center (Nielsen) or a 3rd line center (Helm) At this point I'd like to go baptism by fire with Larkin and AA at center and insulate them with good wingers.

I know one thing, I'm gonna be thoroughly disappointed if we sign Frans Nielsen for 5.5/5yrs. That's his rumored ask, and he keeps popping up in rumors linked to us. McKenzie mentioned Ladd as a name we might be in on, I'd be down with that.

I love how this started with Radulov but evolved, not quite sirdrake stuff but I get a kick out of it.

Beyond Weber vs Subban, Nashville wins based on what their defense looks like now vs Montreal. Josi-Subban Ekholm-Ellis vs. Markov-Weber Emelin-Petry No comparison.

Yeah, you would think the cream of the crop getting less than market value would drop the price not raise it. Unfortunately NHL GM's are a bunch of mopes who sign these awful deals and then get cold feet years later. Kenny having the money to match the craziness other GM's offer players is a terrifying thing right now.

Few more names to hit the FA list tomorrow: Korpikoski (EDM), Carle (TB), Boll (CBJ), Seidenberg (BOS), Greene (LA), Jackman (NSH). All being bought out.

More salt in the wound, from Pierre Lebrun: Montreal, Toronto, Buffalo and a fourth team got to make pitches in person to Stamkos this week. Detroit not one of them. That's just ******* sad, some random team got an audience with him and we didn't.