Around the league news:

- Nylander signs 8x$11.5m which leaves the Leafs $21m next season to use on 10 contracts to fill the roster. Is this the end for Marner/Tavares?

- Flyers trade Cutter Gauthier for Jamie Drysdale and a 2nd rd pick from the Ducks. Gauthier informed the flyers he would not play in Philly LOL

- Ducks GM Pat Verbeek had tried to swing a deal to get another high pick at the 2022 draft so he could also try to draft Cutter Gauthier. Couldn’t swing it at the time.

- Flyers engaged upwards of 18-20 teams that Cutter Gauthier would sign with over the last weeks.

- GM Danny Briere and president Keith Jones both traveled to Sweden to see Gauthier at #WorldJuniors to try and attempt to get everything back on rails, before pulling trigger today.

- Trevor Zegras on the trade block? Pat Verbeek seems to be going in a different direction before one was made with players he didn’t draft

- Corey Perry is eligible to return to the NHL. Make the call Steve

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Red Wings News:

- Edvinsson and Berggren are AHL All Stars!

- Nate Danielson traded from Brandon Wheat Kings to Portland Winterhawks, the highest scoring team in the WHL. The deal involves (F)Nick Johnson, (D)Rhett Ravndahl, 25 1st, 27 1st and a 28 5th

- Red wings send Czarnik back to GRG

- GRG is on a 5 game win streak and Toledo has been undefeated since December 9th

- The last time the RedWings won a game with less than 4 goals was back on October 4th, 2023 against the Pittsburgh Penguins during the preseason where they won 2-1. Won 3-2 against the ducks on Sunday.

- During intermission of the ducks game: Verbeek saying how Yzerman came to the decision to draft Seider 15mins before his selection in the 2019 NHL Draft 🤯 the rest is history

- Believe it or not, James Reimer made it on Frank Serevalli’s list of top deadline targets for daily faceoff at 26 out of 25 lol

- Per his agent, #Yotes , #NHLBruins , #LeafsForever  and #LGRW  showing interest in #Spartak Maxim Tsyplakov. They'll make a decision on where he continues his career at the end of the season. ➡️ 22G 10A 32 PTS in 48 GP in the KHL

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Main Topics:

Red Wings Trade Rumors & Deadline Targets

- Matt: Adam Henrique/Noah Hanifin

- Zack: Sean Walker/Chris Tanev/Zegras?

Would you trade for Trevor Zegras?

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Game notes:

Wings beat Ducks (Sunday night) 3-2

- Lyon in net vs Lukas Dostal

- Zegras scores a tip in 20secs into the game…1-0 Ducks

- Wings took 10mins to register their first shot which came on the pp

- They then score on their second shot by Larkin who was setup nicely in the slot by DP

- Mctavish cross checks Larkin in the back and goes off hurt

- Ducks did register a shot until last 7secs of in the last 10mins of 1st period lol

- Larkin on the ice to start the 2nd period thank god

- Veleno gets a sneaky wrap around goal early in the 2nd to make it 2-1 that had to be reviewed to confirm it went in

- Alex Lyon is an animal making a few key saves to keep the lead for the wings

- Wings kill a huge 5-3 PK. Chiarot and Walman looked fantastic. Crowd yells LGRW in Anaheim

- Kane gets an unsportsmanlike penalty for arguing a call that was not made.

- Ken Daniel’s announce wings are on a perfect 20/20 PK streak entering the 3rd period on the pk

- Ducks tie it 2-2 another Zegras goal with the wings inability to collect the puck in their own zone and get out

- With 67 seconds left in the 3rd, Seider shoots the puck from the top of the circle with a nice redirection off the skate of Rasmussen to give the wings a 3-2 lead

- Ducks fans chanting “refs you suck”

- Overall: great game by the team and great win. Detroit sweeps Cali, winning 3 straight & taking home 6/6 points. MASSIVE start to 2024. Alex Lyon wins again, making 28/30 stops for another solid W. Red Wings win w/ 3 or fewer goals (again).