Like this a lot. Great job unloading those contracts as well, exactly what we need to do. I'm still in disbelief that Hextall gave up a 2nd for Granlund at 5 mil lol. Would maybe like a little more speed, but no complaints here, this forward core and D would be really tough to play against

There are a lot of cheap backups available as FA, you'll have to convince a team that DeSmith is better than something they can pick up for free.

Petry has a 15 team no trade list, right? Cant see a deal with BUF

Maybe the Detroit trade happens since trading Hronek I've seen quite a few ACGMs with teams sending RHDs to Detroit but as usual we have no idea what Yzerman intends to do.

Wings pass

What is the incentive for Minnesota to do this?

Addison has been significantly better than Smith to date for their NHL careers. That alone means the value coming back to Minnesota isn't enough. Besides, they're similar enough players that Minnesota wouldn't have any interest in Smith given his issues are the exact same ones that Addison has. So if they're looking to move Addison, they're not going to acquire a lesser carbon copy of him.

Then there's the fact that Minnesota's defensive prospect pool is full already. On the right alone; they have Faber, Spacek, Johansson, and Masters. Additionally on the left is; Lambos, Peart, Hunt, and O'Rourke. Many of whom are either better prospects outright, or are better fits organizationally.

Duhaime is basically Marcus Foligno 2.0, he's young yet, but I wouldn't move him and a 5th for a single 3rd.

Detroit says no thanks.