2025-26 Prospects Thread

[Hongbit]

38 minutes ago, buddha said:

EP40 - Larkin - Raymond

Debrincat - Copp - Kane

Lombardi - Kasper - Mazur

James - Compher - MBN

you lose danielson in the trade plus a pick and ras.  re-sign kane.

That’s such a soft lineup.  Bottom 6 still lacking any toughness or ability to make life difficult for another team.    
 

They won’t be able to get them but maybe someone like Colorado’s Logan O’Connor or Columbus Mathieu Olivier would be perfect for this team.  Much better at filling a need than another questionable skill guy like EP40

[buddha]

51 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

That’s such a soft lineup.  Bottom 6 still lacking any toughness or ability to make life difficult for another team.    
 

They won’t be able to get them but maybe someone like Colorado’s Logan O’Connor or Columbus Mathieu Olivier would be perfect for this team.  Much better at filling a need than another questionable skill guy like EP40

i dont want ep40.  but the amount of smoke there means they are interested.

[slothfacekilla]

You're all going to feel silly when Brady Cleveland makes the team and beats up the entire league

[Shinzaki]

If you trade for EP...2nd line C between Cat and Kane.  Mantha is a FA...bring him home to give Larkin and Raymond a bodyguard on the 1st line.

Or get Bert back from the Blackhawks..proven chemistry with Larkin and Raymond

[Jason_R]

The way I see it there are two paths forward. One is to stay the course. Continue to introduce the kids gradually. Hope for incremental improvement until CCR (or I guess I should say CCCR) are off your books. Sign free agents to fill whatever gaps are left over and hope for the best. 

The other is to make your own luck, maybe on a reclamation project like EP40. As I said in another post, if they took the last two years of Compher and Rasmussen (maybe also Danielson or Kasper or a goalie), that would make the effective annual value of EP40 just under $9 million. If his knee is right, and his head got right playing with a bunch of fellow Swedes and freed from the Canadian hockey media that is often harsh with non-Canadian players, you could end up with another center capable of putting up Dylan Larkin numbers at effectively a Dylan Larkin salary.

No, you would not be getting around the criticism that your team is soft, but yes you would be making a dent in the even strength scoring situation. But there are still a lot of years on that contract so your Swedish brain trust needs to be 100% sure that EP can be resurrected in Detroit.