Confirmed with Link: Walman and a 2nd Round Pick traded to SJ

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

ok considering Walman only made it 13 games before getting scratched for "non-hockey reasons" I retract my previous statement that if I knew the full reason Yzerman shipped him out I'd likely feel he pulled the trigger too quickly.

 

[The Zermanator]

Linking to the reddit thread since I don't want to encourage any traffic to the cesspool formerly known as Twitter.

• Warsofsky didn't want to divulge details, but said about the scratch: "No one is bigger than the team. We're about the team, and getting better as an organization, our culture, our standards, is really all I can say to that."

Can the Walman issue be put to rest now? That's two teams now where there are similar whispers that he's not committed and invested in the success of the team. Yzerman wanted to get rid of a locker room cancer (who's on-ice play wasn't much better) and he found a way to do it by making a lateral move rather than being forced to take a step back to get rid of him. Considering the team is full of young, impressionable players, with more on the way, I'd say that was a very sensible decision. Good riddance and move on.

 

[RED WINGS STOMP]

Sorry, one SJ scratch is not enough to justify what Steve did. Maybe Walman is locker room poison I don't know, but I don't believe we had to make the move we did to get rid of him. I am ready to move on about this however.