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Maybe they can get Lomas Brown and Kevin Glover out of retirement to shore up the line a little...
The fact is that without his grit (which he left embedded in the back of Moore's skull), Bert is a big body with OK hands and little else. The Wings could use a guy to replace a broken and battered Holmstrom, but you can see Bert has no spark and won't be assuming that role, or any role other than depth.
Another factor here is that Hudler hasn't been given a big role in Detroit. He only got about 13 minutes of ice time per game last season, and he likely wants more than that. He can get it in the KHL for sure, but I don't think it's a real smart move on his part. With his lack of size and strength, it's not going to take many hits before he starts to break down.
Hey, with receivers that great, who cares who's throwing to them, right? Right?
While he was in Detroit, the perception was that he was a hugely talented guy who was prone to sleepwalking through games from time to time. When you held him up next to hard workers like Yzerman, he suffered in comparison, and maybe he couldn't deal with that. But it would all be water under the bridge if he'd stayed. Someone of his talent deserves to have their number up somewhere, but because of his bouncing around from team to team, it's unlikely to happen for him, and that's a shame.
Now, though, I think he sees himself more realistically, as a borderline top-six and a guy who can mentor the young Russian kids on his team, but also as a guy who is on his way out and is on a team that has a decent chance to make it all the way. For that reason, I think he'll be back with the Caps.
By the end of the Pens series, they seemed unable to move into the offensive zone without chipping the puck in and going after it, which limited them greatly. I think their inability to pass through neutral ice had a lot to do with that.
That said, I don't know where they begin to alter the makeup of the team to add those kinds of playmakers.