Jamie Dodd

If you do just get a great player at a different position, then you're incredibly weak down the middle.

I do not.

I do not envy the position that Iserman is in here because you are really damned if you do, damned if you don't, if you are going to trade Dylan Larkin.

The logical thing, just looking at the age group of that young group of players in Detroit is to take at least a year step back, try to retool.

Don't rush into a deal for a center just because you need to fill that gap.

I just don't know if that's possible.

Keith and Kit says Iserman will make a separate trade between

for a centerman, and he says, Petey?

Look, far be it from me to start baseless Elias Pettersson trade conversations.

I would never do something like that.

Never, ever.

I would never filter every piece of NHL news through the lens of, what does this mean for the chances that Elias Pettersson gets traded?

But what would it take, theoretically, for somebody to trade for Elias Pettersson?

Probably a GM in a pretty desperate spot.

That would certainly be part of the recipe.

A GM who looks at it and thinks, man, if I could just get this guy back to 85 points, he could really save my bacon.

Is there a GM in the league in a more desperate spot than Steve Eisenman facing a Dylan Larkin trade request?

Maybe not, considering how long they've missed the playoffs.

I'm not saying I'm not saying all of a sudden then he's willing to bend.

He's willing to take on the full freight of Elias Pettersson's deal.