The Fourth Period took note of the comments Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman made today regarding his team’s desire to consider and/or pursue roster-bolstering trades this summer:
Speaking with the media on Thursday, Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman admitted they didn’t really get much of an opportunity to dip their toe in the free agent waters and that they “knew pretty early we weren’t going to be involved in much.”
“The guys that we were hoping to talk to all signed before free agency with their clubs or got traded before,” Yzerman said. “In the case of Mitch Marner, we didn’t even get an opportunity to talk to these guys. There’s not much you can do about that.”
With more than $12 million in salary cap space, the Red Wings have plenty of flexibility to add to their roster and the plan, it appears, is to do so via trades.
“We’ll certainly explore,” Yzerman stated. “I know there’s a couple of teams looking to move some people for various reasons.”
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“Without going into detail or elaborating, there are a couple teams looking to do some things that we do have some interest in and are possibilities,” he said. “Something might come up over the summer, for whatever reason, in another organization. What I intend to do, once things settle down here – we’ve got the holiday weekend – would be to circle back next week with everyone to see what their plans are for the off-season, if they have any holes to fill, or players, for whatever reason, they want to move. So, we’ll see if anything comes up here in the next week or so.”
What would it take to get Jason Robertson? Steve knows Jim Nill very well so there has to be something that can be worked out. A 25 year old first liner with his goal scoring abilities is exactly what we need. Picks, prospects… (I’d trade anyone besides ASP) do whatever it takes. We are talking about a guy entering the prime of his career here.
People know my take on trading for Gudas. Add them and I’m pretty sure they would make the playoffs.
It would take Jim Nill wanting to move Robertson first of all. I don’t think that’s guaranteed.
It sounds like he’s willing to trade him if they can’t get an extension done. Dallas doesn’t have much cap space so Yzerman can definitely pull a DeBrincat move and lock him up long term. Of course we don’t know what Robertson wants, maybe he has no interest in playing for Detroit.