slothfacekilla

Old friend alert! I'm honestly getting very excited about Detroit's PWHL team. Manon Rhéaume is building a very interesting franchise for their inception.

I do question how Larkin is going to age when his best asset is his speed, but he is still going to be in high demand. I just personally don't see it as 2nd overall type stuff, but hey I'll be very happy to be wrong.

And I would counter you saying that I think you are drastically undervaluing the second overall pick in the draft. We obviously don't agree on this stuff but to frame it as we're just trying to give Larkin away is disingenuous.

Ref it isn't fair that two of them are in the ring at the same time! I feel like @lordstanley could be the ref here?

Can I tag @buddha in

Part of why I was so shocked by the Larkin request was it seemed like the Wings have done extremely well by him and his family. Multiple leaves for family stuff. Putting his parents/wife/kid in a suite for home games, having his wife and kid in the tunnel for Dylan to say hi to before hitting the ice, etc.

The hfboards person I referenced seems to think the Wings are going to trade Larkin and DeBrincat this summer. Faulk, Gibson and Copp at the deadline. Get a top 5 pick in the next draft. Would be quite a reset. It makes some sense but scares the crap out of me. Theoretically it would bring in a lot of assets though....judging by how people view our scouts and front office I imagine it would scare a lot of people.

I'll drop it since I don't want to be a downer, I really wish I had this sort of optimism in me!

Someone on the hfboards who seems to be plugged in somehow said that the Wings have discussed trading Edvinsson to the Sharks??? If that's true then I could see some sort of package around that bringing back 2nd overall or Misa. Was kinda shocked to read that though.

Jack Eichel was 24 and Larkin has never hit 80 points in his career. The first round pick was 18th overall. Meanwhile you're talking about the second overall pick (in a draft where the top 2 players are fantastic prospects) and Misa who was considered one of the best prospects in the entire league? Tuch is a good player but he was never the same level prospect as Misa. Krebs had plenty of warts which we've seen play out in his career where he's settled in as a less than 40 point player who is bad at defense. I admire your optimism but I think you're going to be very sad with the trade return if this is what you're expecting. I'll give you your kudos if something like this happens but.....it seems insane to me.

We should trade Seider

Are you sure you wouldn't want them to throw Celebrini in too to make it more even?

Penguins and Kings are apparently on Nurse's list..........Ken Holland said earlier this week he's calling around about defensemen......the mad man is going to do it isn't he.

Seider 11th in Hart voting, pretty cool

I can't stop daydreaming about a return like Iginla/Desnoyers, Simashev and Peterka from Utah. I have to have some sort of hope before reality actually kicks in!