Value of: How Much Retention Needed to Move Tarasenko ?

[Holden Caufield]

Pretty possible Buchelnikov will come to the team this summer, and he will need a veteran Russian player to help him to get comfortable with NA life and hockey. So what point to get rid of Tarasenko?

Wings have 10 returning forwards. Not including Kane, who Yzerman said he would like to bring back.

Detroit can’t run it back with 10 or 11 of the same forwards from last year. There needs to be more churn then that.

Tough to move certain guys like Compher/Copp because of term length remaining. Some guys they simply wouldn’t want to move. Tarasenko seems logical as it had not been a good fit so far.

 

[Holden Caufield]

Retain or add sugar?

Retention would be used as the sweetener in this scenario.

I’m sure Yzerman will be gun shy to throw picks away in order to dump cap after the Walman episode.