Trade confirmed: Detroit Red Wings - St. Louis Blues

Trade Details
Detroit Red Wings Acquire: Dylan McLaughlin · $0$750,000$175,000 (AHL/JR) 2025 7th round pick (STL) Sum: $0$750,000$175,000 Change: -$2,625,000 Change: -$1,875,000 Change: -$2,450,000	St. Louis Blues Acquire: Jakub Vrána ($2,625,000 retained - 50%) · $2,625,000$2,625,000$2,625,000 Sum: $2,625,000$2,625,000$2,625,000 Change: +$2,625,000 Change: +$1,875,000 Change: +$2,450,000

Sad Vrana got into his issues, was a very good player with unfortunate habits.

Wish the """"reporters"""" who have said they know whats up with Vrana would actually tell us.
Anyway lets hope whatever it is works out for all involved. I like the bet for the cost for STL

Good trade for Blues IMO. Paid almost nothing for him and got 50% retention too. Let's hope he can bounce back.

Well the Mantha trade blew hard for the Wings in the end.

I was told by Wings fans that he would cost a 1st to get him

Varna to the blues maybe walker 2.0

Seeing as he's back on IR and has been a healthy scratch at times, I'd say Washington isn't exactly over the moon with him either.

STL wins, the return is basically a bag of pucks

Ima say DAL won the trade in the end. DET moved the first rounder from that year for them and DAL got Wyatt Johnston out of it.

Detroit's hopes rest on Cossa's shoulders, although he has struggled this year.

This retention is brutal. Yzeman is paying $3M+ (next season included) to get rid of him....

lollll. wheres the rude detroit fans who insisted Vrana wouldnt be retained on or insisted that he would get a first + back

Told you he had negative value.

Sad. Take our best pure sniper and put him in the stands. Good way to win hockey games.

-1 Yzerman

The good old lose-lose type of trade.

That says how bad he wanted him gone. Bert and Vrana two top 6 wingers who should have been 60+ goals for years traded away for a 1st, junk and half retained.

But he was doing so well in the AHL, his value was skyrocketing.

I'm not sure anyone is particularly happy with it tbh. Very strange trade

There were people who thought he'd return something? Like Yzerman destroyed his value and eliminated his leverage when he said he was done as a wing

Well fwiw, I as a Dallas fan am relatively happy with it

It does suck that circumstances didn't really work for any actual participant in the trade in the end.

Oh wow this is atrocious for Detroit. Absolutely brutal.
Even if Vrana doesn't bounce back, you're willfully eating half his salary in exchange for essentially nothing. I know the guy supposedly has issues, but he's still a 30 goal talent. Every team in the league should have been on this.

Splits the inevitable buyout for Detroit

There’s no way they retained for just a 7th rounder

Somethings wrong with player... if Detroit was wanting to make playoffs and player can score allegedly. Otherwise, intentionally tanking?

I tried that once with Andreas Johnsson. Didn’t work out so well.

Eh I'm glad he has some privacy