Quoting: BOLTLOVER1
Dumb .. Callhan at worst can be bought out of his ONE year contrcat at Cap hit of 2.6M in 2019 and 1.6M in 2020 .. that peanuts .. not giving up a first .. 2 and 3 year buyouts.. like ALOT of them .. are where 1sts come into play .. and Yzerman is not going to take a D after Deteoit took 2 #1s the last 2 years at D position .. look at Lightning .. ONLY Hedmen was draft pick .. all other eight who played this year were trades or FAs.. Yzerman will trade the pick or grab a forward
Detroit would retain salary on a d-man that can move the puck out of the zone (probably Daley, but who knows maybe Green wants to play for a Cup) and since that was a glaring need for the Bolts this last playoffs pair them with Callahan and given the Bolts cap issues that would be where the 1st comes into play.
The Bolts are not going to buyout Callahan as that opens them up to a small chance of losing Point this year, but a worse cap situation next year when they need it for: Vasilevskiy, Sergachev, Cernak, Cirelli, Joseph, and Volkov. It's not peanuts when the Bolts have RFA to qualify and offer sheets to avoid.
Hronek, Cholowski, and McIsaac are all 2/3 guys as I don't see any with the potential to be #1 d-men. I can see Detroit moving up to the Avs spot. Fair compensation is 60th pick, but they will probably have to throw in a B-prospect too.
Colorado has 3 highly thought of right-handed prospects: Makar, Conor Timmins, and Nicolas Meloche. And 5 total 1st or 2nd round d-man draft picks under the age of 24 as they acquired Samuel Girard and Nikita Zadorov in trades. If Joe Sakic chooses another d-man instead of a center than he is holding the team back. If he is doing it out of spite then he won't be there long--but I don't believe he's stupid. But consider that LA can trade up select a d-man and lose a potential 3rd round pick and the Avs can get the exact player they want--so don't count on them only dealing with the Wings.