DETROIT – Whether the Detroit Red Wings exercise one or both of their compliance buyouts will depend on what, if any, moves they make this weekend at the entry draft in Newark.

The compliance buyout period begins Wednesday, 48 hours after the Chicago Blackhawks clinched the Stanley Cup championship with a 3-2 victory over the Boston Bruins Monday in Game 6. It ends at 5 p.m. on July 4, the day before free agency begins.

Under the new CBA, teams are permitted a maximum of two compliance buyouts, for which they will not incur any salary cap penalty. They can use both this year or save one or both for next summer.

The Red Wings won't decide until Monday, at the earliest, if they will use a buyout.

The Red Wings have a surplus of forwards. They have 14 under contract (including restricted free agents Gustav Nyquist and Joakim Andersson) and are still in contract talks with unrestricted free agents Valtteri Filppula, Daniel Cleary and Damien Brunner.

They will try to alleviate this logjam by trading somebody this weekend. Scrappy Jordin Tootoo is available, according to a source, and chances are, so is fourth-line center Cory Emmerton.

Tootoo was a frequent healthy scratch the second half of the season and appeared in only one playoff game. He has two years remaining at $1.9 million per season. Emmerton's spot likely will be assumed by Joakim Andersson, assuming Darren Helm is healthy next season and returns to his third-line center slot.

If the Red Wings use one or both of their buyouts, the most likely candidates are forward Mikael Samuelsson and defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo.

Samuelsson has been declared healthy after finishing the postseason on the shelf with a strained pectoral muscle, one of several injuries that limited him to just four games in the regular season and five in the playoffs. But, there is a chance that Samuelsson and his agent could dispute the club's assertion that he is healthy (injured players can't be bought out). He has one year remaining at $3 million.

The Red Wings will see if there is any interest in Colaiacovo at the draft. He has one year remaining on his contract at $2.85 million ($2.5 million cap hit). If they move or buy-out Colaiacovo, they'll have seven defensemen.

Todd Bertuzzi and Tootoo also are compliance buyout candidates.

Filppula's rights might be dealt

The Red Wings will attempt to trade Filppula's negotiating rights for a conditional draft pick this weekend if the sides remain far apart on a contract. They continue to talk, but it does not appear as if a deal will get done because Filppula has been seeking a long-term contract worth more than $5 million a season, more than the club is willing to give.

If Filppula isn't re-signed, the Red Wings would prefer to acquire a center to replace him. Stephen Weiss of Florida is a potential free-agent option.

Discussions continue with Brunner and Cleary, but no deals are close. Term is an issue with Cleary, as the Red Wings don't want to commit too many years to him at age 34. The club continues having difficulty finding common ground on a salary figure with Brunner, who has only one lockout-shortened NHL season under his belt.