No takeback-sies on Babcock, BTW, we're good with Blashill.
Never thought I'd say that.
Anyways, interesting talk around Wings fandom about what to do this off-season and if/who we should buyout. Ericsson and Daley seem like possibilities to free up spots for younger players like Hronek, Cholowski and Hicketts, but they both have one year left (along with Green), so might be worth it to buy one out and just bite the bullet in the other. Really depends a lot on what Kronwall does and if Green is back to 100 percent.
Sadly, our worst contracts are Abdelkader (4 years), Nielsen (3 years) and probably Helm (3 years but he could be movable) with a bunch of kids logjammed in Grand Rapids. Abby being moved is probably going to require retained salary (likely half) for the rest of his deal plus picks/prospects because it is awful and he's just not producing at $4.25 million. Nielsen is likely similar. Bank isn't coming back, but I don't know who they go get to replace him (my gut says they make a run at Filppula).
I'm not sure we're players on the FA market for another year at the moment. Certainty not for Panarin.