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What Would You Do?

by DetCapC19 on 02/01/10 at 08:02 PM ET | View all posts by DetCapC19
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I know it’s early but I was looking through the Red Wings cap situation next season and I came accross some interesting decisions that Holland and Co. are going to have to make for the 2010-11 season.

Goaltending and Defence are pretty much set on Detroit.  Lidas, Raf, Kronner, Stu, Lilja, Rig, and Kindl.  If we can sign Janik to another minor-league deal, he’s good insurance.  If Liljs doesn’t end up coming back due to health reasons, there are other options out there (Ward, Boynton, etc.).
 
Up front though, we have some issues:
 
Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Franzen, Filppula, Cleary, Helm, Draper, and Eaves are all coming back (Helm and Eaves needing to be re-upped).  That’s 8.  Throw in Homer and that’s 9.
 
Abby has to make the team next year as does Ritola.  Assuming both stick, that’s 11.  Ritola can be the 13th forward, so not a big issue.  But, what do you do with Abby? 
 

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