ET Feb. 24, 2020 | … Best of luck the rest of the way.TB: So Athanasiou for Joseph and Puustinen? How about this: Georgiev and Lias Andersson for Andreas Athanasiou and Gustav Lindstrom. As for prospects, we have Valtteri Puustinen and Sam Miletic—who have both improved their value greatly over the last two seasons—readily available.
We’ve got a lot to prove to ourselves and to the management.”BOSTON — Since he was appointed general manager of the Detroit Red Wings in April, Steve Yzerman has made seven trades.Yzerman has been an unusually visible presence on this trip since joining the team Thursday at New Jersey. Too promising of a prospect, but we would be content moving draft picks to solidify our blue line. On Friday, he attended an intense practice meant to send a message after the team quit in the third period against the New Jersey Devils.Yzerman’s task is to stoke the rebuild.
Would that work instead of Arizona’s third this year?TW: Quick and easy. We are all aware of the situation.”All of them have been minor, and only one can be described as having a significant impact on the team — acquiring Robby Fabbri, whose scoring instincts have earned him a spot as a top-six forward. Plus, a 25-year-old isn’t exactly young.TW: We’re looking for picks and prospects right now. But I’ll bite and move the seventh-round pick up to a sixth to get the deal done.TW: Excellent. How about Athanasiou for Nathan Legare straight up? His current challenge is to determine if he can do so before the Feb. 24 NHL trade deadline.Filppula, 35, isn’t having a good season, either, and Yzerman, when he signed Filppula last summer, gave him a no-trade clause that lasts until Jan. 31, 2021.Beyond those players, veteran forwards include Nielsen, Justin Abdelkader and Valtteri Filppula.The Wings present as sellers for a fourth straight season, entrenched at the bottom of the NHL standings and headed for a fourth straight draft lottery.
He was a 2017 first-round selection and is still just 20-years old. JB: Hirose and Cholowski for Andersson and Georgiev sounds about right in my mind.Join over 18 000 Subscribers of our free bi-weekly Newsletter.JK: A third might be a bit of a high price for a rental like Daley. Let’s look at how they fared. Detroit came away from this mock trade deadline with a more well-rounded prospect pipeline and salary cap flexibility heading into the offseason.TW: I think we’re getting close. I think we can accept that. While rebuilding, the goal should be to acquire picks and prospects and that’s what was accomplished here. If you are retaining half of Green’s contract that should fall into a range we can work with for the remainder of the 2020 season.Athanasiou is a nice starting point, but his value is probably at the lowest of his NHL career thus far. We’d want a solid prospect (or two) in return. TB: Legare really impressed us in training camp and we expect him to be a key player for this franchise as soon as next year, so he is not available. TW: Done.