Don't think he is holding out for a bad contract, I think he just wants out of Edmonton. They really did handle him badly, still baffles me they decided to give him English lessons after playing two seasons already.
Ah a lot of USA webbies are blocked for me because of new EU privacy regulations, others just have a disclaimer I need to click.
Bit annoying , but affraid of lawsuites I guess :p
To detroit I would trade Risto, we need to look at our own D pool and at RHD we got. Miller - Montour - Jokijarhu - Borgen - Laaksonen. We can very well afford this trade.
Its an EK rumour, but I can believe this one, Yzerman loves risto.