Quoting: hanson493
so the wings do the leafs a favor... take on ceci, foooor? petan a 4th and a 7th? why? Most will agree ceci is already over paid and isnt that great. so why are they taking a serviceable asset from the wings for really not a whole lot?
- Detroit is actively trying to tank this year.
- Bernier isn't a goalie to build around, but he's better than Cal Pickard, or whoever they want to call up. And his contract is up in a couple years anyway, he'll be 33, he's definitely not part of the futire. The should be getting rid of him one way or another anyway.
- Ceci is at least an NHL player. Even based on his play in Ottawa the last couple years he'd be the 3rd or 4th best player on Detroit's blue line, based on his numbers in TO he'd be #1. I wouldn't expect him to keep it up, but I'd expect him to be pretty much interchangeable with anyone in the top 4. It's also only for one year.
- Petan is a serviceable player, but will never get to play in Toronto. He's better suited to a top 6 role IMO. If they want to use him there, he'd fit in fine, if they want to tank as hard as possible while hanging onto an RFA with some potential, he's already cleared waivers this season.
Another route they could go down is taking on Johan Franzen's LTIR contract. But Detroit doesn't actually need that space right now so I don't know how much that would matter to them.