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Forum: Armchair-GMMon. at 7:54 a.m.
Thread: Detroit Hockey Club
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SharkTank</b></div><div>Well if Detroit wants to improve defensively Barrie certainly won't help.

He's a lesser version of Ghost.

I don't know how bad Ghost wants to stay in Detroit?

Other teams know he sucks at defense but they love his points.

I thought Roy was a shoe in for Detroit being a Michigan Boy and knowing their need for a top 4 RD.

But apparently not? 🙄

Maybe Yzerman doesn't want Roy on the payroll for 5-6 years when he knows ASP will be a Red Wing in 2 years?

Let's say Yzerman signs Roy.

And signs Barrie for cheap as you suggest.

Yzerman would have to buyout Petry or trade/waive Johansson and trade Maatta.</div></div>

Run 8 defensemen. He actually mentioned doing that already. I signed Reimer but that could easily be a spare forward.
ASP is staying in Sweden this season. Probably a year in Grand Rapids at least, maybe a bit more. Similar route as Edvinsson I would expect. That's 3 years or so before he's on the team. Deal with Roy at the time, never know what transpires by then. Roy could be a good, overpaid though, third pairing guy by that time. The salaries can be dealt with at the time. I personally would prefer Roy or a similar player to Gost. I get the desire to have a good powerplay quarterback though which is why I brought in Barrie. At this cost, it doesn't matter if Barrie is not good defensively, I want him strictly to PPQB.