2019 Retool

Detroit says no

the Minnesota wild says no for Jason Zucker

Detroit isn't trading AA! Detroit also doesn't want Maatta who has spent just over a 1/3 of his career IR. Trading Pittsburgh's 1st for Detroit's 2nd isn't much incentive there are 15 picks between them.

How does Detroit plan on getting younger on defense? Kronwall, Daley, Ericsson, DeKeyser, and Green. Other than Bowey and Cholowski, you don't have much youth on the blue line, and you have an abundance of good young forwards in Larkin, Mantha, Bertuzzi, Rasmussen, Zadina, Svechnikov, and Athanasiou. Detroit is likely going to have to use one of those guys to improve the blue line. The team has already had issues signing AA once, so, seems like he would be the most likely to be moved.

You sure? Because Rust is actually a pretty similar player to Zucker. Zucker may have more scoring potential, but he's also 2M more expensive. Like Kessel for Pittsburgh, seems to be a matter of when not if Zucker gets moved, and the thought seems to be that Minnesota wants to clear space to make runs at UFAs. Kessel may be a better scorer, but he costs you more than Zucker.