It's not hard to figure out that Trouba wants out of Winnipeg, Usage has nothing to do with it. And how do you know that Overhardt is feeding bad advice to Trouba. Maybe he needs out for a reason maybe he needs to be closer to his family we don't know.

TrueNorth: You're right, that would be a very good deal for Trouba. Whether it's agent advice or Trouba's thoughts, he does have the option of not signing a contract. Imagine what happens when Trouba now goes into GM Chevy's office. OK we agree to 5 years at 5.4m contract. Chevy counters with a Dumba offer of 2.6m, or Kucherov 4.7m a year for 3 years.
Worse for Trouba IMO is that he has narrowed the trading partners that Chevy may have had a few months ago. Disgruntled 22 year old players aren't very welcome on many teams. I wonder 10 years from now, when we think of Trouba do we think of a good Dman who might have had some All Star appearances or about a guy who seemed on the verge of second layer stardom, who ends up being a marginal player in the NHL.

A note of Larkinisking comment: Needs to be closer to home...maybe so, but from a NHL ownership view,,,,so what? There are 30 teams in the NHL, and players know where they are know the restrictions of player movement once a player signs a contract. Let's imagine that Trouba "only wants Detroit", The Wings currently may not want to anything to do with him for contract and their own reasons of having a demanding 22 year old on their team. Trouba might be playing hockey in Detroit just not on an NHL team.

There's nothing wrong with Overhardt's advice. Trouba is right shot dman who was consistently played on the left side all year. Trouba feels he can play better on the right so yeah he has every right to request a trade from a team that won't utilize him. People said the same thing about Overhardt when he advised Kyle Turris to hold out from the Coyotes and now he's a top line center for Ottawa. Overhardt wants the best for his client and the best thing for Trouba is to play on the right side, something Winnipeg has shown that they are not consistently willing to do.

honeynuts: Do you think Turris is now a better centre now because he's older, smarter, stronger and not just because he went to Ottawa?

Turris may well be a top line Centre talent in the NHL but he's 27 years old and making $3.5M. Had he stayed in the desert, he'd still be a top line Centre, just be making more money and not be remembered as a holdout.