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Rick D reacted to Jimmybigrigs69 in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Yeah he'll probably be worth that cap hit for 2 maybe 3 of those years
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Rick D reacted to LeftWinger in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Geez! Pius Suter gets 2 year at $4.125M AAV from St. Louis.
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Rick D reacted to LeftWinger in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Defense does look REALLY bad compared to Forwards. He has GOT to make a trade soon, right? I believe he still needs both a LHD and a RHD, and not just depth, actual valuable pieces!
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Rick D reacted to Jimmybigrigs69 in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Yzerman was a top player in the league superstar from day 1 though. Larkin is a weak 1st C who can't even get 1 selke vote despite wings homers clamoring to tell themselves how gReAT he is at defense... im just saying, there's a difference. And I don't care about the personal accomplishments or immediate desires of one individual player, especially not a non superstar.
If Larks wants to be dour and glum about all this then let him request a trade. So long. Get a nice kings ransom for him.
If Larks was the caliber of a late 20's Yzerman I would have a different attitude. But he's not.
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Rick D reacted to LeftWinger in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
ALSO:
Still holding out hope that we are in on Ehlers, top line minutes has to be attractive to him. I still think we NEED a top LHD, or if they are going to use Edvinsson there, a least a 2nd pairing LHD. Also a 2nd pairing RHD would be beneficial.
Grzelcyk would be nice for that LHD. 40 points on a crap show of a Pittsburgh team.
We CANNOT go into the season with the D we have. Need TWO legit NHL D. JBD is ok, but he's not that 2nd pairing RHD we need...
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Rick D reacted to stephen-gregory-yzerman in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Some great UFAs still remaining...........
Gustav Nyquist
Tomas Tatar
Pius Suter
Jakub Vrana
Daniel Sprong
Klim Kostin
Anthony Mantha
Andreas Athanasiou
Joe Veleno
Robby Fabbri
Christian Fischer
Craig Smith
Tyler Motte
Luke Glendening
Brendan Smith
Jon Merrill
James Reimer
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Rick D reacted to Motor City Mullets in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Good for him...Was a trooper and played well for us.
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Rick D reacted to Learn2LuvIt in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
This day on the calendar used to be better than Christmas, the Super Bowl, and Evel Knievel on the same day. Now it's guessing which toy from the Island of Misfit Toys we are going to end up with.
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Rick D reacted to LeftWinger in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Tanking for McKenna
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Rick D reacted to Learn2LuvIt in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
My only hope is that deals have been done and waiting for "i".s to be dotted and "t"'s to be crossed before announcing..which can often be agents letting players involved know before announcing. Maybe Compher and Copp are out on Lake St. Clair and have no cell signal??
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Rick D reacted to LeftWinger in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Ok, a few hours to go!
Wish list:
By any means (UFA or trade) please lets us get a top line winger (or center and have Larkin move leftwing) a top 4 LHD and top 4 RHD. Round out the bottom 6 with a mix of our kids and a solid grinding PK guy maybe!
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Rick D reacted to AtlantaHotWings in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Or he is now more valuable in a trade with a known cap hit?
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Rick D reacted to Akakabuto in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Something needs to be done to upgrade the defense. Not only because we wanna get better, we got two young stud defensemen on this team who needs quality partnership to further their development. I’d prefer Y put his money and resources there.
Got to fill up on forwards too. How many do we got signed for next year right now? 7?
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Rick D reacted to Jimmybigrigs69 in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Tarasenko is gone! Hooray! Thank you... MINNESOTA my favorite team.
$23+ mil in cap space for tmrw now...
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Rick D reacted to Jimmybigrigs69 in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Yeah, and honestly the length of this rebuild - SY going slow and steady - is fine with me. Might not be exactly what I'd do in this particular moment, but I can understand the approach and why.
The only thing that actually pisses me off about this rebuild is SY's inaction at TDL's. I won't get into all that again in this thread, but for 2 years now I haven't been able to find anyone around the boards who can come up with a reasonable excuse for it, and most won't even try to defend it. It's bad. It's wrong. And I could abide this rebuild for much longer if he'd least stop doing that (by doing somdthing).
*Mandatory comment about Detroit being a city in Minnesota*
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Rick D reacted to LeftWinger in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Ken Holland in a nutshell.
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Rick D reacted to Akakabuto in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Pretty good to remember how this rebuild started when complaing about whats taking so long.
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Rick D reacted to Jimmybigrigs69 in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
The Italian stallion is done in the NHL isnt he?
He's just never provided... anything. No identity as a player. He's akin to Joakim Andersson or Cory Emmerton. Just completely replaceable.
That 2018 draft is nightmare fuel. Holland really cooked us. We had the 6th, the 30, the 33, and the 36th. Zadina is in Europe. Probably Joe now too. Berggren is a weak perimeter forward that probably doesnt survive the next 2 years on this team. And McIsaac is barely surviving in the Czech league.
Wild.
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Rick D reacted to Jimmybigrigs69 in 6/27 - Hot Mom Watch GDT - Detroit v The 13th Overall w/special guest - 7PM EST
Carter Bear just saved SY from being the whipping boy
Naturally I said i didnt care about our pick this year, and then SY did exactly what I seceretly wanted. CARTER IS A ******* SHOP WRECKING BEAR ON SKATES. love it.
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Rick D reacted to Jimmybigrigs69 in Detroit Red Wings Centennial Center Ice
I voted for #2 yesterday.
Mostly out of Nostalgia for HEY HEYYY HOCKEYTOWN, but I also think it would be good for the players and fanbase to start thinking like champions again. Bring back some pride to this team, and perhaps we will accomplish something to be prideful of.
>how can we can honestly call ourselves hockeytown when we cant even make the playoff?
Because I don't give AF mostly. We could go 0-81 next season and I still will proudly tell opposing fans "welcome to hockeytown, get ready to lose" on game 82. Being concerned we arent good enough for the label is wussy talk.
>but #1 just looks so much cleaner
I'd argue this isnt a vote about which center logo looks cleaner/nicer. It's a vote for an entire marketing campaign / branding scheme. The Red Wings are essentially asking us the question "do you want us to bringback hockeytown?" And with that everything that comes with it. The television intro. Mickey n Ken referencing it. Merch. Etc. Because if they paint that on the ice all those things are coming back. Theyre not just going to stop at center ice. And IMO id rather do that than trot out the same old boring "clean" red wings.
Marketing is fun. Look at what the Cats did with Rats and Dairy Queen. Time to bring back Octopi and Hockeytown.
MWFA
Make the Wings Fun Again
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Rick D reacted to LeftWinger in TITLE CHANGE - 2025 UFA/RFA July 1! (plus summer trades)
Oh s***, he we go! Yzerman has re-signed William Lagesson to a 2 year extension!
In all seriousness, I'm pretty disappointed in Steve Yzerman. I guess the draft is still ahead, so he could still move the #13 and UFA is around the corner. But damn, he could've matched or bettered a few of these trades and we'd be a better team today.
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Rick D reacted to Jimmybigrigs69 in 2025 NHL Draft - June 27-28 ; To Tank or Not To Tank
Stop being a pessimist.
Everyone know's the best way to rebuild is to sign mediocre players and draft middle tier picks.
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Rick D reacted to kipwinger in 2025 NHL Draft - June 27-28 ; To Tank or Not To Tank
I've seen some media reports that NYI are looking for multiple 1st round picks coming back in a trade for Dobson. I can't really recall the last time any player got that kind of package coming back...maybe Hertl? So I think it's probably overblown. But if that's truly the price then I'd walk away. He's a really good player, but he's a RHD and we've got Seider and ASP long term. Use those same assets to pin down a heavier power forward type and address the LHD holes in the lineup in free agency.
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Rick D reacted to LeftWinger in 2025 NHL Draft - June 27-28 ; To Tank or Not To Tank
I tend to agree. If we aren't trading for a D, we could easily fill and LHD and a RHD via UFA. Then we could trade the 1st(s) and players for a top line upgrade. But I'm sorry, ASP and MBN are not on my table. They are our near future. Wallinder and Buium I am ok with using in a package. Along with Berggren, Rasmussen, Tarasenko, Holl, Mrazek, Compher, etc...
Lindgren 5x$6M
Ekblad 5x$8M
those two signings would make our D better, harder to play against, and Lindgren is a penalty kill specialist. Plus it will make our future team better.
This year:
Edvinsson - Seider
Lindgren - Ekblad
Chiarot - Johansson
Gustafsson
Next Year:
Edvinsson - Seider
Lindgren - Ekblad
Johansson - ASP
(random 7th D)
I buy out Holl and Tarasenko before June 30, just cut ties, no need to attempt to trade, nobody wants to give anything for them.
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Rick D reacted to Jimmybigrigs69 in 2025 NHL Draft - June 27-28 ; To Tank or Not To Tank
Yeah this draft legit sucks. At 13th, all the Dmen seem like riskier project players, and the forwards project out like middle 6 guys.
Dobson would be a huge add. I'd send NYI the 13th + Ras (making cap space) and a D prospect like Buium or Wallinder.
Dobson is rumored asking for 11m per, but he wont get that IMO under RFA control. I'd try to get him under a contract that matches Seider's. $8.55 x 8. Would expire when he's 33 yo.
That leaves us with roughly $15m to sign Ajo, Soder, and Berggren + UFAs (including Kane). Could go out and still sign an impact forward with that amount of money.