Pavels Dog
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Let's say we sell him for a 2nd round pick this year. Lockerroom morale is destroyed, the team goes into tailspin to finish the year. Larkin realizes the team doesn't want to win and leaves for nothing in UFA. Seider and Raymond question Yzerman's committment to winning and sign only short-term deals. Big UFAs see that Detroit's still firmly in a rebuild, not even attempting to make the playoffs, and sign elsewhere.Not trading Bert is a mistake. I'm sorry, but I don't want to miss getting something when I honestly believe we are missing the playoffs. We are close now with games in hand, but we got 4 of our 5 wins against two teams in complete disarray. I want playoffs too, but I don't think we will end up making it, and if we don't trade Bert and then lose him for nothing, is not what our team needs right now. 5 wins in a row is already super good, how many are we realistically going to get. Larkin isn't going to keep scoring 1-2 goals for a long stretch here.
So lets say we make the playoffs and lost 1st round, we draft later, we gain no assets from keeping UFAs and a few playoff games don't really make a world of difference experience wise for players.
Not trying to be a downer, but a realist!
Not trying to be a downer, but a realist.