To give the short catch-up version of how we got here for those who have been living under a rock for the last six months or so, the Red Wings have been looking to trade for a defenseman and the Ducks have been looking to find a way to re-sign 22 year old wunderkind defenseman Hampus Lindholm. Currently the Ducks lack enough space to deliver the deal that’s apparently going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 years/$6M AAV, even after putting defenseman Simon Despres on LTIR.
To put this away out front, the Ducks aren’t the only team shopping a defenseman, and the Wings aren’t the only teams looking for one.