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Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 23, 2019 at 4:47 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 8, 2019 at 12:03 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 23, 2019 at 11:53 a.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 4, 2019 at 5:59 p.m.
Thread: Re-Yzerman starts DET rebuild
Datsuyk is most likely not coming back. His oldest daughter is still in school and the trip here is a vacation to visit colleges and show his family where he used to live and work. Remember he left the Wings and 5.5M for a 4.5M KHL contract to be closer to that oldest daughter. That contract is done in St. Pete's SKA and he has stated he is down to two teams (his KHL hometown team) Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg or Detroit. I think this is leverage to get the KHL offer up. As the top 10 in the KHL go from 1.5M to 6M (as of the 2017 season). Which brings me to my second point: that offer of 6.25M is ridiculous. I can see 2.75M to 3.5M (which still would place him in the top 5 of the KHL), but even that would be better utilized by acquiring a 1 year bad contract (say Callahan's) with a draft pick attached for the rebuilding Wings.

Brayden Point is a pipe dream. The whole reason for Tampa getting rid of Callahan is to have enough cap room to re-sign Point.

Svechnikov and Rasmussen will be in the AHL as the first gains another year of waiver exemptions due to being on IR all last season and the other looses the Jr club transfer issue that kept him in the NHL last year.

Ericsson won't be buried unless he has an atrocious camp.

Abdelkader has a full NTC (until next year when he loses it if Detroit misses the playoffs or his TOI is less than the top 9 forwards) and won't go to Ottawa.

Finally, where is Hronek? I think he makes the team based on his play at the end of last year.
Forum: NHLApr. 11, 2019 at 3:54 p.m.