Barzal says no

Isles add a 2nd or prospect

Disagree. He’s an RFA. He doesn’t have a ton of leverage and salaries are dropping league wide.

Nope. A 1st is more than fair.

No it's not. Staal got a 2nd which will be about pick 40 for 1 year at 5.7. 2 years at 6M is worth only about 15 picks higher? Absolutely not and if you think it is, you can keep him and we will keep or cap space

Isles have no leverage, Lou waited too long to get something done and the price has gone up now that teams have already made other moves and filled out their rosters and cap space

Good thing you don’t make the call. 1st rounder for 2 years of Boychuk is absolutely fair value.

Good thing I know more than you and wings decline and now you can keep him. Byeeeeeeeeeee

God damn it! How am I going to explain this to the fan base...

I am not going to pretend to know what the cost of moving Boychuk is going to be, at 36 and with two years left on his deal you are going to find it hard to trade normally. But with him controlling his fate its even harder, 8 team trade list and if he is smart he will have picked teams that can not take his contract to give himself leverage. He most likely wants to go to a contender which means a buyout something that the wings can not do now unless the islanders do it after Pulock's case. Thats the problem, if you do get him to allow a trade to a team like the Red Wings you wont have any leverage at all, and that only increases the cost of dealing him. So i agree with other Red Wings fans that it is likely to cost more then a simple first round pick to trade him.

You're crazy we got a 2nd for 1 year of Staal with a $5.75 mil cap hit, And Boychuk has 2 years left with a $6 million cap hit. No way is Lou getting rid of Boychuk for a single 1st round pick need to add one of Bellows or Wilde or another 2nd round pick. And Detroit sure isn't trading Turgeon for Boychuk.

Dude you're totally delusional if you honestly think that a 1st round pick is totally fair value for 2 years of Boychuk making $6 million per.