Quoting: Wilbur
Until they have to sign their RFA's and sign UFA's.
You are not concerned with AA's season? -35 would typically put him as one of the 3 worst results in an entire season.
At this rate if he stays in Detroit he is on track set a record for the worst plus minus in a season (-82, 69 & 68 are the 3 worst, set in the mid to early 1970's) I'd bet his agent is trying to get him out of there and there is a great relationship between Yzerman & Holland.... This is a lost season for Detroit, so a move like this shouldn't surprise anyone.
Also something to consider, and it's been like this for a few seasons, how about the fact that the Wings only I have 1 Right shot forward in the entire organization, Glendenning. This deal gives them 2 more.
Yes I am concerned, but the whole team is not having a good season. -35 is bad but again this is almost season and selling low now is not a good strategy. Stevie and Kenny might have a good relationship but that stops when one GM is rebuilding and the other has a generational talent.
His agent might want to get him out of Detroit, but again he is a RFA and Wings hold all the cards not AA.
Lastly, Wings having only 1 RH shot up front is troublesome, but JP is a headache and Chiasson is not building for the future, as he is old and not having a good season this year.
Lastly Yzerman will probably looking for a LH defenseman, not someone else's headache, older player who had a very good season.