I would probably do that as Habs fan. Would see about including hoffman or Armia in there though as a bit of a dump. Also PLD would need to be signed

Forgot to mention in the 2nd trade that Mark Scheifele signs an extension with Detroit, so he is not a rental
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No. Can't give up Ras.

You are getting Scheifele tho, Rasmussen is the center piece of this deal. Rasmussen will never be good like Scheifele but I know it hurts losing him
Kubalik-Larkin-Raymond
Fabbri-Scheifele-Perron
Berggren-Copp-Zadina

Detroit passes, We don't need 2 30 year old players. When we're developing one of the youngest cores in the league.

Connor Hellebuyck isn't committing long term with Ottawa. They're not better than Winnipeg. And Hellebuyck wants to win a cup in the next 10 years. Sorry not happening in Ottawa.

Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Ras is a big part of this Red Wings team. It'll take a better player than Scheifele to trade him.

Oh gee 10 years of Scheifele or 18 years of Rasmussen. Who do you think a young core is going to keep?

Wings pass, scheifle not a fit and ras not going anywhere

Scheifle is 30, Demelo is 29, and both are UFAs next year. Rasmussen has only looked better and better. It's not a coincidence our team got noticeable worse without him. Johansson is an NHL caliber defenseman that is just being depthed out; could see him playing RD for us, though.

So after a few days where I was more then happy to sell off everyone I've had some time to calm down and this is my honest take on the team. Yes we had a disapointing end to the season and everyone would like them to blow it up, but that was said about the Leafs last season and they made it over that hump this season and who knows how far they can go.

We have a team that seems to fall back into bad habits in the latter half of the season and 3.5 out of 5 of the playoff games. But they did show when they play that system they can in fact win and excel at it. Don't get me wrong change is gonna come if Dubois is moving on. For Helly and Scheif it comes down to is this team entering a rebuild, if were going to continue to go for the cup they might stay.

For a team that's missed the play offs making it back in is often considered a step forward. I'm not suggesting we run it back, but if they could convince Dubois to Stay or we receive an acceptable replacement through that trade or another. Move on from Wheeler (trade/buyout) and give Morrissey the C. One of Pionk or Schmidt would need to go and get a bit more size on the backend. Playing another season under the new system that's only a year old. I think they do better next go around, at the minimum less likely to fall into old habits as the new system becomes habit.

Detroit's current core is absolutely laughable other than Larkin and Seider