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Me getting excited about the rebuild every few months:

"...HEY ELAINE" "What is it PUDDY???" "...Feels like a Boss Man Show night" "A WHAT???" "Boss Man Show... DBoss, Mankos, Showtime. I'm puttin em on the same line" "Puddy, are you telling me you gave away Walman for nothing, to save money... and then spent it all on two over the hill oft injured superstars from the 2010s who don't play defense...??" "Yeah that's right" "That. IS. IT. I've had it with your STUPID line combos. WE ARE BREAKING UP" "OK. I'll be at Arby's"

1 Year at $4 mill with performance bonuses potentially 2.5 Mill (unconfirmed on CapFriendly) if this is what he signed for, Then Im more then happy to have him back

It's official

He could be better than last year. Now that he's pain free he can actually do a real full offseason training. Something I dont believe he's done in 2 years. Sad to see papa perron leave for a rival, but step daddy Kane is more fun to hangout with anyway.

HOLD THE PHONES We just signed William Lagesson !!!

Seider/Ray are not preventing Yzerman from any signings. Most contracts being signed today like every fa day are bad-awful.

Wondering if Red Wings still on Vegas time and didn't realize FA started noon EST...

Guess we might be getting younger ....lol Cam Talbot coming for 2.5 x 2

Lol! 14 of TSN's top 15 players have been signed, and none in Detroit.

$5 we’re getting dirty…Bert’s gonna return.

All these UFA's are giving Yzerman the bird. DeBrusk was definitely affordable and would have made us better.

Perron to the Sens....2 years, 8 mil.

Stamkos to Nashville https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/free-agency Wow the Preds going to town

Very happy with this contract. His upside is huge, and if his hip goes there are no long term cap issues. We arent 1 point shy of the playoffs last year without him.

Pesce signs with the Devils $5.5 × 6 This is a good benchmark for Matt Roy. A $5 × 5 might get it done on him...

Bertuzzi to Chicago? 4x$5.5M $4M, even better!

Word is Drury is pissed and has pulled the Trouba trade off the table because of this. Interesting. I wonder how much Kane factored into them trying to move Trouba.

I heard he banged Perry's dad too for good measure.

Well, yeah. I heard MBN banged Corey Perry's mom. All he does is win. It's incredible.

Just read its official. 1 year, 5.5 mil.

Yeah - Kane for 1 year...Don't mind that 1 bit - was under the impression he wanted 3 years...

Apparently it's pretty much done...Kane will be back for 1 more season. https://x.com/PierreVLeBrun/status/1807553041974915114

He's just not the raw, oozing talent, fancy playmaker, that everyone wants us to draft (every season). Reminds me of the Rasmussen pick. Nobody really complains about that pick anymore... though I would love to see Newsy give Ras some real offensive minutes this season, but I digress... MBN is probably going to be similar. A swiss army knife style player that can play either wing, and on any line, and be responsible. And just like Ras he'll make the team faster than usual. And of courrse theres sniper potential with his shot. If you listen to Yzerman (and Verbeek) he always says the number 1 thing he looks for is compete level. MBN has that in spades. The new Finnish kid we just traded for has that in spades. Meanwhile Walman was day drinking at the Tin Can on days between games during the slump. Where is he now?

People are saying MBN's another safe, underwhelming, high-floor-low-ceiling Euro and that Yzerman needs to cut it out with this crap. I get the frustration, but, to me, MBN's actually pretty close to what these people are clamoring for. Good size (not very tall, but he's got meat on his bones). Plays big boy pants North American hockey. Good at both ends of the ice. Can play in all situations (PK). Lethal shot. So basically: a modern power forward who probably won't take the usual 20 years to break into the NHL, given the selling points I just highlighted.