IIHF refuses to grant transfer card to Jiri Hudler

[LeftWinger 5,153]

Because Hudler would play on the first line on any other team.

Stuart is MORE important to this team than Hudler will EVER be! Put the nail in the coffin, Hudler in a WIngs sweater is the WORST idea EVER! If this makes it to where he has no choice but the play of us, then we are doomed! Williams, Eaves & Bertuzzi = MUCH better than Hudler! Trade him right f*cking now! You tell Detroit I say BullSh!t!

[King Crane 289]

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What the Wings don't need is his salary. If Hudler is forced to rocket back from Russia, his $2.875 million cap hit becomes a mastodonic thorn in Holland's side. The Wings already have 23 players signed (including potential Hudler replacements Jason Williams and Todd Bertuzzi) and are already nearly a million bucks above the ceiling.

Fitting Hudler in would require a solution more elegant than burying a couple of veterans in the minors and promoting a couple of minimum wage kids to fill their spots. Holland would have to foist a significant salary on another team and take nothing but picks/prospects in return, and we've all seen how tough those deals have been to make this summer.

Holland's only real option here is to dump Tomas Holmstrom. His $2.25 million hit won't cover Hudler's, but it's close. His contract expires after this season (good for the acquiring side) and he still has a rep as a big-game player, though he's not always as visible from October through April.

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Just wanted to add that I complete agree with LeftWinger

Stuart is MORE important to this team than Hudler will EVER be! Put the nail in the coffin, Hudler in a WIngs sweater is the WORST idea EVER! If this makes it to where he has no choice but the play of us, then we are doomed! Williams, Eaves & Bertuzzi = MUCH better than Hudler! Trade him right f*cking now! You tell Detroit I say BullSh!t!

Edited August 29, 2009 by ZMAN

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Just wanted to add that I complete agree with LeftWinger

I'd say Holmstrom's been a lot more visible in October the last couple of years. It's everything after that where he's been invisible. But it'll never happen; no way he would be traded. I don't think there's going to be an issue here. Hudler will play in the KHL this year. Heaven knows how long drama will go on and it's a given that the media is going to report the same stuff every other day and hype it to the heavens, but it'll work out. I'm not worried, concerned, dehydrated, depressed, anxious, etc.....

It'll work out.

[uk_redwing 495]

Hudler sucks.

That is all.

[SouthernWingsFan 854]

Stuart is MORE important to this team than Hudler will EVER be! Put the nail in the coffin, Hudler in a WIngs sweater is the WORST idea EVER! If this makes it to where he has no choice but the play of us, then we are doomed! Williams, Eaves & Bertuzzi = MUCH better than Hudler! Trade him right f*cking now! You tell Detroit I say BullSh!t!

Shhh, you're waking up the neighborhood.

Hudler sucks.

That is all.

Not really.