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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 5, 2023 at 9:53 a.m.
Thread: Acknowledging the Marner-Larkin chemistry from the all-star game
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MitchJr</b></div><div>No reason to ship out Kerfoot, he stays to play PK &amp; 3W.
Larkin has a NTC so he’d have to agree to any move; Stevey Y is in a pickle - either give Larkin the deal he wants or move him TDL (Larkin holds the hammer, NTC) or let him walk for nothing.
Wings fans seem to forget how this process works - Larkin is calling the shots, not Stevey Y.</div></div>

Or he does exactly what he did with stamkos, hold the line all the way to ufa. Nobody can offer more money to larkin in seven years then Detroit can in eight, so he can choose to make less and go elsewhere if he likes, but financially the money is on Detroit’s side.

I don’t know why anyone expects Steve’s playbook to be any different. We have seen this entire playbook before. We know it’s a risk he’s willing to take.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 2, 2023 at 9:56 a.m.
Thread: TDL Plan
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Ritzy</b></div><div>What has Bertuzzi done exactly to warrant a 1st in a deep draft? Regardless of how late the pick is.

The overwhelming majority of Wings fans on here agree his value is incredibly low right now, which likely means they hold on to him. Which is what should happen.</div></div>

If you’re trading for Bertuzzi it’s because you believe last year and every other year of his career that he scores on a 21-30 goal pace (barring the back year but were years removed from that) is what you will have come playoff time. If Detroit moves bertuzzi it’s because someone offers that value, otherwise yes I assume a short term contract is in order for both bert and the wings.

The deep draft argument is largely overinflated here. It is a deep draft. The top5 is like a top3. The top10 is like a top5. The top15 is like a top10.... but once you get into the twenties and late twenties it really isn’t all that different from another year. The entire draft class isn’t superior, the very peak of it is deeper.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 2, 2023 at 8:50 a.m.
Thread: Test
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NYR1983</b></div><div>Retaining 1/2 of a 5M AHL player isn’t helpful. That would cost you 2nd per season minimum. Now if he came back up today and was .75 ppg then sure</div></div>

Not saying we’re likely to trade him but Vrana is certainly not an ahler. When he came out of the assistance program his conditioning was dogwater - whatever happened, he just could not keep up. And he didn’t look much better during the conditioning stint, which I think led to us waiving him so that he could continue to get himself back up into playing shape.

He was awful for like the first 8-9 games as a griffin. Only in the last 5 or so has he been starting to look like his old self again.

The optimist in me wants to hope he is progressing well and will be back in the nhl lineup after the ASG and back to his sniping ways. But I personally think it could take a little longer and if we want to move Vrana it may be an offseason thing after a post deadline nhl stint.
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 1, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.