The Detroit Red Wings are looking for a veteran top-six center
Marco D’Amico of Ratings: The Detroit Red Wings are looking for a top-six veteran center with term, and are willing to pay up for it, according to sources. Andrew Copp is currently their number two center after moving Marco Kasper, their eventual 2C, back to the wing.
Sources say the Red Wings could have Vincent Trockeck at the top of their list, with Nazem Kadri and Elias Pettersson as potential backup plans.
With the Olympic trade freeze and break going on right now, how much business is actually getting done?
Daily Faceoff: David Pagnotta on The Sheet with Jeff Marek when asked how much business takes place during the Olympic break.
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Marek: “How much business do you think gets done in the next couple of weeks, while the players are out and some guys are in Cabo?
Pagnotta: “Yeah, I think this, this first week, is going to be relatively quiet. Talking to a few kind of GMs out there and a few others around the league that they anticipate this first week, let the guys go do their thing. Let them get away. Whoever’s not in the Olympics. Everybody take a breather. Management and everyone will be doing their thing in terms of mapping out their plans.
But let the players go do their thing, and then when everybody comes back, or close to it, next weekend. Everyone’s back on the 17th. Then have those conversations with your pending restricted and unrestricted free agents.
And a lot of teams, I think Seattle, Columbus, Toronto, a number of them, want to have those discussions with their pending free agents during this time to determine whether or not it’s realistic for them to sign them.
And you know, Boone Jenner, for example, in Columbus, I’d be a little bit surprised that they can’t figure something out there. But is Charlie Coyle going to want to have, you know, a deal in place with Columbus, or is he looking at the free agent market? And if that’s the case, they’re going to have a decision to make, just speaking hypothetically, using these two guys as examples.
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But you know, we may see some players become more available in the next couple of weeks, based on how some of these discussions go. We know Seattle is going to have it with their guys, whether it’s (Jamie) Oleksiak, (Jordan) Eberle, (Eeli) Tolvanen and (Jaden) Schwartz, those are four guys that are important that they got up.”
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