Your title makes just as much sense with if you stop after 5 words.

Posted by HockeyinHD on 05/17/10 at 10:05 AM ET

Rob Parker before going on tv:

“Hockey is the one with the round black thing and ice right?”

Posted by SolidTG7 on 05/17/10 at 10:17 AM ET

Miller is from Detroit, Howard is from Buffalo…there’s his reasoning

Posted by detroitdan1982 from St. John's, NL on 05/17/10 at 10:50 AM ET

...trade rumor among the Detroit media types who neither grasp the complexities of the salary cap…

It happens every year. In fact, last spring a certain KK blogger who we all know and love absolutely refused to beleve that Hossa wouldn’t be retained – salary cap be damned.

At the risk of raising the ire of the “dreamers” out there, here’s a fairly conservative estimate of where the Wings might be at the mid-point this summer.

FORWARDS: 13
Pavel Datsyuk: 6,700,000
Henrik Zetterberg: 6,083,333
Johan Franzen: 3,954,545
Valtteri Filppula: 3,000,000
Jiri Hudler: 2,875,000
Daniel Cleary: 2,800,000
Tomas Holmstrom: 2,250,000
Kris Draper: 1,583,333
Todd Bertuzzi: 1,500,000
Darren Helm: 1,000,000
Justin Abdelkader: 850,000
Drew Miller: 800,000
Patrick Eaves: 800,000

DEFENSEMEN: 7
Brian Rafalski: 6,000,000
Nicklas Lidstrom: 5,450,000
Brad Stuart: 3,750,000
Niklas Kronwall: 3,000,000
Andreas Lilja: 1,250,000
Jonathan Ericsson: 900,000
Jakub Kindl: 883,333

GOALTENDERS
Chris Osgood: 1,416,666
Jimmy Howard: 716,666

TOTALS
ROSTER SIZE: 22
SALARY CAP: $58,000,000
PAYROLL: $58,162,876
CAP SPACE: $562,876

That doesn’t even leave room for keeping Mattias Ritola (who’s out of options) or for signing the fourth-line grinder that Babs wants. So if Ryan Miller is going anywhere, it won’t be to Detroit.

Posted by OlderThanChelios on 05/17/10 at 11:50 AM ET

All you need to know about Parker is he goe sonto ESPN regularly to argue with another idiot, Skip Bayless.

Here are two guys that can go on TV, argue opposing views, and make you the viewer be looking for a third options because they both sound like idiots who don’t know what they’re talking about.

Parker is all Pistons and Lions.  He knows nothing at all outside of that scope.

Posted by Primis on 05/17/10 at 12:10 PM ET

But if Lidström were to sign for minimum wage then… nah, probably not.

Posted by Moq from Denmark on 05/17/10 at 12:33 PM ET

Ernie Harwell is “loooooong gone.’‘

what an ass.

Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 05/17/10 at 01:16 PM ET

My goodness, Rob Parker is Eklund.

Posted by Hippy Dave from Portland by way of Detroit on 05/17/10 at 01:18 PM ET

Hmm .. this reminds me of a Johnny Carson show long ago when both Albert Einstein and Jerry Lewis were on.  Remember that Jerry Lewis was (and still is considered a “genius” by the French media).  Albert commented on Mr Lewis’s antics, “such stupidity must be spontaneous”

Posted by Matty55 on 05/17/10 at 01:46 PM ET

“Miller is from Detroit, Howard is from Buffalo…there’s his reasoning “

Howard isn’t from Buffalo.  He’s from a town in New York State that is just as far away from Buffalo as Detroit is.  I realize you were being sarcastic though. =)

Anyone who knows how Darcy Regier operates understands how ridiculous these rumors are.  Next…

Posted by @DaveDavisHockey from Buffalo, NY on 05/17/10 at 01:55 PM ET

I mean, seriously, the Detroit sports media needs new blood.  People who actually know WTF they’re talking about.

Parker’s washed up.

Posted by SYF from the bottom of my, what, 11teenth pint of Guinness? on 05/17/10 at 02:23 PM ET

But if Lidström were to sign for minimum wage then… nah, probably not.

For Nick, $5.45M would be minimum wage…his minimum. I doubt very much that he’ll go any lower than that (a $2M cut). And he may well not be willing to even go that low. He may want $100k more than Rafalski just on general principles alone. We’ll see.

Posted by OlderThanChelios on 05/17/10 at 02:32 PM ET