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2014 Offseason League Signings and Trades

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Not surprised. Niskanen is looking to cash in and if a team is offering him $7 million a season, he is going to do it.

Looks like we get to see the kids play this year. Prepare for a little pain.

Then again, maybe what the fanbase needs is a bandwagon purge. If the Wings tank this year and miss playoffs, then we will have less undesirables. Not really what a want, but I guess there is a silver lining in the cloud of misery.

No cause we will sign a couple scraps for an overpayment

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Raise your hand if you'd appreciate the irony of Kyle Quincey rejecting Detroit and signing elsewhere because "they just aren't competitive".


I disagree (unless you're being sarcastic?)

Replace Ken Holland's name with Dan Cleary and tell me if that line of reasoning still works.

Cleary works harder than almost anyone on the ice, but that doesn't matter. He simply doesn't produce the results necessary to remain competitive at the NHL level.

Holland has an incredibly difficult job. So do the other 29 GM's in the league. It's not always going to work out, but the results are still what matter. Not how hard he tried.

There was absolutely things that could've been done in the last 5 years. Just because Holland didn't make them doesn't mean they didn't exist.

I was being sarcastic. VERY.

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Raise your hand if you'd appreciate the irony of Kyle Quincey rejecting Detroit and signing elsewhere because "they just aren't competitive".

I was being sarcastic. VERY.

:lol:

ok. I realized that right at the end after I typed my message. With what crazy things people say here genuinely, it's sometimes hard to tell.

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id sooner us not pay over the odds for Niskanen, in 1-2 year's we have 3-4 legit D ready in the A if not before.

This also says that this is Babs last year, if Kenny doesn't get Mike some bigger and better pieces to play with.

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I swear if Holland comes out and says "in the end the price was too steep and we want to go with our young guys" instead of admitting no one wanted to come here I'm going to lose it.

He is rumored to have offered Boyle 2yr/10m, so you can't say he was cheap.

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Wow.

I don't have much faith in Holland these days, but I honestly thought it was a given that he'd get at least one of the many halfway descent mid-level options out there. There were several descent options and we had the cap room to even pay a bit more than we'd like for some of the mid-level guys.

But it's looking like we're going to come up totally empty again.

We need a new GM, plain and simple. Keep Kenny in the organization if you can, but there have just been too many consecutive years now where he's not finding a way to get the things done that he needs to get done, and that's not even considering all of the terrible signings he has managed to get done.

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@ Wings4theCup06....it means we'll likely see Quincey back and keep Kindl and Ouellet, Sproul and Marchenko get "more seasoning" in GR this year cause kids are only a last case scenario here when you have quality "vets" like Q and Kindl. I'm bitter because of that fact. Our kids on D won't see jack this season.

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Tough day so far, which is why if we get defense help its just gotta be threw a trade.

As I've said already. If KH calls you looking for a trade, you ask for the moon. What other choice does he have? Also, right after free agency is a terrible time to trade because the market is in equilibrium and you can't play sellers off of one another to reduce prices.

If he trades now (as opposed to a week ago), he's a complete fool

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Anyone dragging this thread into arguments about "real" fans will be suspended.

Stay on topic.

Any REAL mod would never make a crazy announcement like that!

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As I've said already. If KH calls you looking for a trade, you ask for the moon. What other choice does he have? Also, right after free agency is a terrible time to trade because the market is in equilibrium and you can't play sellers off of one another to reduce prices.

If he trades now (as opposed to a week ago), he's a complete fool

Yeah I didn't mean for him to go into panic mode and offer Nyquist for Myers or anything. But down the road he might have to package tatar/pulkinnen to get something we have needed for 4 years now.

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