Well, I'm grasping at straws here. This is bizarre asset management.

Obviously SJ wins but you have to be a pretty bad puck mover to have 9 assists as a defenseman who is in a pairing with sider

Celebrini will be learning to griddy this fall...

There has to be more to the story here. Because this is a bewildering trade from every angle.

No idea why he is considered a cap dump, especially for a 2nd. Baffling

Gibson is worth a 2nd but Walman is a cap dump, wtf are we doing

Sweeney passed the bottle down

Yzerman cooking

Another overpaid FA incoming

Single handedly stopped the Canucks from trading mikhayev it that's the price it takes to offload the contract lol

How bout. It's 4D chess and he's setting the price of a cap dump super high so he can land Stamkos when Tampa can't make moves.

Huh? Walman’s good, he’s not a cap dump, Yzerman, what are you doing?

The yzerplan ready to spend 6 mill a year on Zadorov (he’s worse than Walman)

3.4 x 2 that's why they are adding a 2nd.
He's lucky he's a defenseman, if it was a forward it would be worse.

For those who want to say he's good, I say 3.4 per is a lot for a 3rd pairing guy. No GM wants to be paying a 3rd pairing that much.
And no, he's not a second pairing so just stop with that.

He’s better than Ryan Graves

except he's not, and the stats show that.

Do the stats you’re looking at have any acknowledgment of the fact that Walman plays the hardest competition of any defenseman in the league (except his dpartner)

you can keep whining, the judgement has been made by two actual GMs.
Verdict is in.

Forgetting taking the term on Petry last year

Yzerman must need a tennis partner in the offseason.

Kotkaneimi only cares about sharing tennis balls. He never entered a gym in his entire career

trust the Yzerplan ahahahahahhahaahhahahahahahaha

CBJ fans.

They traded a 1st for horrible Provorov. Overpaid one of the worst D in the league in Gudbransson. Yet act like their org isn’t clown shoes

A team paid for Ryan graves?

That's a very good point. The only justification I can see for it is that Yzerman is in a time crunch and needed the contract gone now and Sharks held him over a barrel. Still, quite weird.

One thing I've learned since Yzerman took over as The Red Wings GM was not to rush to judgment.

At the start of the season most people, including me had Detroit in the basement of the division with Montreal. With Chariot, Maatta, Holl and Petry how could Detroit be any good,

I don't think Walman was moved just for cap space. You don't pay a 2nd to move a player like Walman on the 1st day of the offseason for cap space.

Honestly I'm glad it was the Sharks! Grier is a Detroiter and for that alone I want to see him succeed!!