Jamie Dodd

But you do that and now you don't have a first line center.

You are incredibly weak down the middle.

Do you really think you're taking that next step as Detroit?

And I think back to when the Canucks were shopping JT Miller, right?

And it was like, well, they got they really need to get a center back.

And here's the thing.

You can the Detroit can want a center back for Dylan Larkin, but it's not going to be a good center.

It's not going to be as good as Dylan Larkin.

And if you are already looking at Dylan Larkin and thinking we need to upgrade our first line center spot, if we're going to really do some damage.

Okay, great.

You got, you know, second line center X who's going to give you 50 points back in the Dylan Larkin trade.

That doesn't move the needle for you.

That doesn't change things.

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