Faulk

Well, that's a rather disingenuous title. As for the trade, you could remove Faulk and Binnington and the retention, and the Blues still say hell naw. In fact, they probably pass if you remove Buch, as well.

Given us back all of our guys huh?

Would signal a for sure rebuild. Could see where it'd be beneficial, but would like Wallinder or Johnsson added as we need someone in that age range on defense if we're going to commit to a full rebuild. I doubt we will, Armstrong has signaled he wont.

Detroit gives up two 1sts to completely and utterly **** their salary cap.

Genius.

I mean they're getting very clear upgrades, and dumping pretty useless cap. You can't acquire prospects forever and hope they develop into roles they aren't suited for.

1. Buying as soon as you're breaking the playoff bubble has certainly worked out for Ottawa and New Jersey.

2. I never commented on the quality of the players they were getting in return.

3. Kane is a PPG player since returning... He's not signing for $5M/year. That's a fantasy.

4. On the opposite side of the spectrum from fantasy, signing Seider and Raymond to two year deals is flat out stupidity.

So, back to my point... Detroit trades two 1sts to utterly **** their cap structure.