I disagree a bit. Is it the best outcome? Of course not. But the best outcome wasn’t going to happen unless Ken Holland gave up draft picks to lose a bad contract. It sucks the Red Wings are losing a young player that they’ve taken some time to develop, but let’s be real here, Tomas Nosek is likely to become no more than a third or fourth line center. You could argue he's a poor man’s Riley Sheahan.
His departure offers the Wings no salary cap relief, deprives them of a prospect who has size and showed tenacity during an 11-game stretch in Detroit this past season, and leaves them with a potentially problematic situation to resolve in goal.