Id be hesitant to try to deal ladd bc with lou around i have this feeling hes gonna end up on ltir

If this is all it took to guarantee Ladd's disappearance I'd make the trade in a heartbeat

Not sure I'd let go of Erne...he seems to be putting things together pretty well this season. Could be a nice low cost RFA signing. Also not sure about some of those defensive moves. Maybe there's something to Capobianco but he's a huge question mark. Lastly, with Raymond being injured most of the season in the SHL, I wonder if he'll be called up ahead of Berggren after the way he's been lighting up the SHL this year.

Who are you protecting in the ED? I don’t think I’m touching that Ladd contract for that little and Lou would probably LTIRetire him before giving up a haul. Those contracts for Vrana, Bert, and Hronek seem long for what Yzerman just said at the press conference yesterday.

Assuming Lou isn’t already finding a way to sneak Ladd onto Robidas Island, Isles do this trade in a heartbeat.

In my mind, Detroit would compete in about 2-3 years minimum. So signing these guys for less than 5 years, do you really want them to be UFAs when Detroit is trying to compete?

Why would the Cats for this?

Because they need young defencemen. And they don’t need Levi while Detroit does

Hronek I have no problem with long term. We don’t know how Vrana will play and isn’t known to be effective at both ends of the ice plus he’s been benched by ~5 coaches now. Bertuzzi isn’t going to make or break the rebuild especially if it was a 3 year deal versus 6 plus if we do add pieces like Seider, Raymond, etc. he’d want to be on that team.

They have young defenseman, Juulsen, Nutivaara, Forsling, Priskie, Kiersted, Gildon, Ludvig, Kolyachonok. I understand you can never have enough but rather see what we have first before trading goaltending depth away