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No Easy Solutions For Wings
by Paul on 11/28/09 at 11:17 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
The Detroit Red Wings are suddenly slumping, not so coincidentally after losing star blueliner Niklas Kronwall.
But anyone waiting for veteran GM Ken Holland to pull off a blockbuster trade any time soon better not hold their breath. At least not at this point. For starters, Holland believes the work effort is there. But also, and perhaps more importantly, there are salary cap considerations. With injuries to Kronwall, Johan Franzen, Valtteri Filppula, Jason Williams and Andreas Lilja, the Wings can’t really take on more salary because all those players, and their salaries, will come back at some point this season.
“I’m not going to trade prospects or draft picks for a guy making $2.5 million and then turn around in two months and have to drop someone to make room for the injured guys coming back,” Holland told ESPN.com on Saturday. “It doesn’t make any sense.”
There are no easy solutions.
continued and many more topics including what I would consider the Evening Line…
“It’s dead out there,” a Western Conference GM told us Saturday (in regards to trade talk).
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it’s not the loss of Kronwall alone that is causing problems for the Wings. they lost Hossa, Hudler, Samuelsson, Kopecky, and Lilja before the season started. now Franzen, Filpulla, Williams, and Kronwall are out. Kronwall isn’t the reason - he’s the straw that broke the camel’s back.
the Wings are doing fantastic considering the current state of injuries and off-season turnover.
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 11/30/09 at 11:16 AM ET