First off no need to beg, whine or complain about about not getting breaks Detroit will get there plus 25 straight seasons in the playoffs and 4 cups from that stretch I say we are we were do for some bad luck it just karma balancing it out. I think the only way Detroit moves Daley or Green is at the TDL assuming they are healthy.

If Detroit will even buyout Abdelkader he was in all the local advertising with Larkin on who would be the next captain in Detroit. Even though Larkin was a shoe in will Detroit really buy him out and say goodbye. If they do buy him out it might be better to do it next off season takes a year off the overall and the buyout cap hit for next season will be $90K less if Detroit waits a year to buy him out. Detroit doesn't need the cap space this season.

with 12 million on the cap no need to buy out abby . they'll just let him play or not and wait another year or 2 before they really have to do something. id take him but thats probably not enough to get gusev

I would just offer sheet Gusev. $4Mish, give or take a bit but the compensation is only a 2nd round pick. I do that all day for a RH shot who projects middle-six that's the same age as the core we're building. Don't think Vegas could match with their cap without having to make some serious moves and given he's never played for them, I'm not sure that they would bother.

well looking at what guys like fox and Vesey had their rights traded for a 2nd is right in line. the difference of course being he played in probably the best league outside the nhl and looked awesome. why not offer sheet him we have 2 seconds anyways