Rangers politely decline.

1) We could get more for Lindholm and Rakell separately and NY is ****y when it comes to moving Nils

2) Gudbranson doesn’t need to be traded he’s been fine if anything we can just buy him out.

3) Most mock drafts have Drysdale falling to 6 or 7. We shouldn’t trade more picks. And even if he does get picked we should go after Holtz or Rossi.

You guys would win this I would think.

1)Then that’s why Anaheim should go after him they need RHDs for the future.

2)I know he’s been fine but that cap hit tho.

3)I see Drysdale falling to 6 but I would expect the Ducks to trade up in order to actually secure him.

If we draft Drysdale we won’t need Nils. If Drysdale is taken Holtz would be just as fine because we need scoring just as badly as we need defense.

Their top priority is defense

They need immediate help for defense. They need scoring for the future considering Rakell Silfverberg and Henrique will all be gone soon.

Rossi>Drysdale

In terms of NHL readiness, yes.

and potential

Agree with all of this, hate the idea of trading up. At this point we just need to acquire as many assets as possible and I don't think the drop off between 4 and 6 is very significant talent-wise. Also Gudbranson wasn't awful and it makes more sense to just eat the cap hit for one more year rather than prolong the problem. Not like he's blocking anyone or is keeping us from signing a free agent (that I'm aware of). The Rangers trade seems around fair, if anything favoring NYR a bit. I agree that you'd probably get more dealing them separately.

From a Detroit point of view unless they at crazy in love witht Drysdale they make that deal. I love Rossi in this draft but at 6 you get either Raymond or Rossi and an extra 1st you have to do it

Maybe I just hate Gudbranson because of his time in Vancouver...

If I’m Yzerman, I 100% do that deal. The opportunity to snag one of Reichel/Peterka/Amirov available at #22 is too enticing.

That's very possible... when we first traded for him I thought it was awful based on his reputation but he actually seemed at least competent. If his cap hit was like 2ish I'd say that's fair and he'd be a nice bottom pairing option.