Ken Holland: Red Wings Won’t Be ‘Very Active’ On Trade Deadline Day
Posted by TheHockeyGuy on March 3rd, 2010
The Detroit Red Wings once were major players on trade deadline day. Those days are gone, mostly because of the NHL’s salary cap.
Wednesday’s 3 p.m. deadline likely will pass with no movement by the Red Wings.
“It looks like we’re not going to be very active,” Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said Tuesday.
The Red Wings are right against the $56.8 million cap, so Holland said any move they make would require them to shed equal or more salary. Now that the team is almost completely healthy for the first time this season, Holland likes his roster and doesn’t feel any urgency to deal.
“I look at our trade deadline acquisitions as being (Johan) Franzen, (Andreas) Lilja and (Niklas) Kronwall,” Holland said of the players who recently returned from long-term injuries. “I still believe we have a good team. I don’t foresee us doing anything of any significance.”
That hasn’t prevented other teams from calling. Holland said he had spoken with three or four GMs in the past couple days.
“They’re offering decent players, veteran guys who will be unrestricted free agents (after the season), but they’ve got serious cap numbers,” Holland said. “We can’t get into that game. We don’t want to get into that game.
“I don’t believe I can make a move that will make us better.”
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