from Ansar Khan of Mlive,

"I'm open for business over the next year or two," Holland said. "I've been talking to lots of teams. I'm open to talking about lots of things, but the reality of it is most of it doesn't happen.

"But over the next year or two, we need to acquire more futures and we need those futures to get better. Lots of young kids over the next year or two are going to work their way into Grand Rapids. We got to continue to keep trying to funnel them from the draft table through Grand Rapids on to the Detroit Red Wings."...

"There's more teams that are selling," he said. "The standings are so close there's some teams that aren't sure what they are going to do. There's not enough teams that are guaranteed a playoff spot. Those teams that look at the standings and say, 'We're in the playoffs,' can spend assets because they know those assets are going to help their team and they're going to be in a playoff spot.

"There's lots of teams that I like to call on the bubble. And nobody wants to pay significant assets and all of a sudden you wake up and you don't make the playoffs. At the end of the day, it is between now and Monday. If not, I'm going to reassess and get to the draft. And then if it's not this time period, if it's not the time period at the draft, then the reality is it's probably a year from now."

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