LeftWinger

Wondering how you guys feel about tendering an offer sheet to Werenski? I am sure Columbus would match anything we could afford to offer, but wouls you like to see one? Going by the chart below, it'd at least cost us a 1st, 2nd and 3rd in compensation. But I think Columbus would match anything under the $8.454 threshold. But if they did not, would you be ok with losing our 2020 picks? Considering we may be a lottery team again? Columbus may let Werenski go for that reason alone. They could possibly score a 1st overall out of it.

Here are the D from the link provided above: (apologies to cell phone viewers) Players that would make this team better (disregarding salary) Pietrangelo Shultz Krug Bogosian Vatanen Faulk Muzzin Hamonic Note that Trouba is not in the linked list because he is an RFA today and his UFA status rests on the length of his next contract. But obviously if he became UFA he would be an upgrade. I was thinking that if we don't get a shot at Krug or Trouba, someone like Hamonic, Faulk or Vatanen could be a very viable option to lead our D for a few years. They would probably settle for a 2-4 year contract instead of 7, and probably nowhere near top dollars.

No Ericsson, Daley, Green is going to be a good thing anyway you look at it. There aren't a lot of "quality" UFA out there. Could this be another year to where we are going to rely heavily on our development and progress of the yoots over high end UFA signings? The obvious is a top D of of course. Lets say neither re-sign in New York or Boston, who do you focus on, Trouba or Krug? I am not saying that Yzerman is even going to go after them, he may be very satisfied with Hronek, Cholowski, Seider as his top guys moving forward. At forward, the top guys are going to cost a ton, RNH, Galchenyuk, etc... G is very dull, Lehner is the "big" name, but that means he will probably get too much money. I don't like Howard, but just give him another 1 year deal and focus on our farm. Also, we would have to make some big strides forward in order to become attractive to top UFA's, and that would mean missing out on a possible top 10 pick (maybe #1.)

in the sense of a "steal" I 'd say that there was two steals, diamonds in the rough, lucky(?) picks in that draft: 3rd Round : Kucherov 7th Round : Palat both drafted by ours truly, Steve Yzerman and his staff. They are here now, I trust him, despite having a confused look on my face for most of the day during the draft. In the case of Holland? He and his staff blew this draft in hindsight, but so did a lot of teams. Hindsight, is a *****!

Maybe he did not want to come to Detroit. Especially if he thought he would be traded in less than a year. This may sound surprising, but NHL players, along with wanting to win a Cup, usually want a bit of stability in their lives, so he went for the 2 years and probably won't get traded in February. There are a lot of these UFA's that I would loved to have had here, especially since we have plenty of cap to give them a fat check, but they just don't want to come here (yet) and especially for a year and get traded to who knows where in a lessor time frame. That is the beauty of be unrestricted, you can go wherever you want for whatever amount of money and length you want. Even Flip got a Full NTC through January 2021, then can submit an 8 team no-trade list, but seriously, who is going to want a 37 year old Filppula when it's all said and done? Not any contender I can think of. He is just what he was described as, a stop gap center, basically to allow Veleno to develop for two season's.

https://www.nhl.com/redwings/team/tyler-wright https://www.nhl.com/redwings/team/hockey-operations but not here

we ARE NOT parting with AA If Yzerman wanted to deal AA, we'd have a #1 D right now. Not unless he had ZERO interest in Trouba, because AA and a pick (our 2nd) would've more than had Winnipeg drooling.

nope, if Kronwall plays, it'll be to get to 1000 games, so he will play at least 47 games. He has said that 1000 games is important to him, IF he can play, so expect him for more than half the games if he does re-sign. Which is a far better option than playing Ericsson for 50 games.

I honestly believe Cholowski should start the year in GR as well.

I'm gonna go with: Zadina-Zegres-Cozens Hughes-Bouchard Now THAT'S a starting lineup!

i like Zadina, but I feel we are going to regret each day we didn't draft Hughes. With Yzerman so in love with Seider, it could/should have possibly been Hughes/Seider. Imagine that! Let's hope Zadina starts filling the nets, to the tune if 40 goals, because Holland passed on a few NHL defensemen with that pick.

yes, as a matter of fact I do realize that it makes no sense. that is why I said it. woof, woof. not one legit word, just throwing names against the wall as a fan!

I guess he left out the part where Detroit acquires Kreider. Lets do this: to DET : Chris Kreider, K'Andre Miller to NYR : 7th Round pick (much needed Cap room to sign Trouba) then to BOS : Chris Kreider, Mike Green (50% salary retained) to DET : Boston 2020 2nd then to VGK : Jonatan Berggren, Boston 2020 2nd to DET : Rights to Gusev So we give up Berggren and a 7th and end up with Gusev, K'Andre Miller. I'll take it! Make it so!

That being said, next July when all of Howard (re-sign?) Ericsson, Daley, Green, (of course Franzen's) all drop off the cap, do you think then Yzerman will be looking to male a huge splash at a UFA or two? We have $36M in cap before the RFA's contracts. Lets say $6M each for AA and Mantha, and #3M for Bertuzzi. The others (Bowey, Svech, Kaski, Kuffner, Hirose, etc...) won't be really any concern of topping $1M-$1.5M I do believe. So that should leave us $21M without Z's contract, $27M with it on LTIR. There could be a lot of damage thrown around from Yzerman. Then again, looking at the UFA crop next season, as it stands, not many forwards that look worth it and only the same crop of D look worth trying for (Trouba, Krug, Faulk, Hamonic.) I think that Krug might be the top target, especially if Trouba stays in New York. The G UFA's don't look good at all. How much is Holtby going to get paid? He's about the only one worth trying to get, but at what cost?

I kind of hope Yzerman is really interested in Gusev. Expecially if they make all of Zadina, Rasmussen and Veleno start in GR. AA - Filppula - Gusev for a 2nd line? Not too bad really.

Here's something a little interesting: https://www.nhl.com/redwings/roster While not all the way up yo date (they are missing Flip) but they show the 2019-2020 roster with Mike Green on the IR. I wonder if he is done? Could be another reason for the Nemeth signing, and also why neither of Ericsson or Daley were bought out. Plus Kronwall is still deciding whether to return or not.

Just curous, have The Wings named an Assist. Coach yet to replace Fershweiler? Or are we going back to just 2? (Bylsma and Houda)

oops, I forgot this was going on here, I posted about it again (on accident) in the Yzerplan thread. In that post I've since changed the 2nd round to Washington's 2nd round because I realized that Toronto only got a 6th back in return for Marleau dump and a 2nd round to VGK to dump some salary should be plenty! I kind of hope this happens, I know we have plenty of "kids" coming up, but as argued here recently, you'd be getting a Pro hockey player at 27 (July 8) who lead a professional league in scoring, PLUS had 16 points in 10 games at the world championship tournament. Maybe asking for the 1st in return is too much, but they are super desperate to dump salary, maybe Yzerman can get it done...

I wonder if there is any water to the rumor that Detroit is showing interest in Gusev? Somewhere on Twitter (I cannot find the tweet now) his agent said there were three teams inquiring about him and Detroit was one of them. I know Tampa drafted him originally, so I guess Yzerman would have a bit of an interest in him maybe? Anyhow, knowing that Vegas has virtually zero cap space, what could be done to help them out and also get us Gusev. I see a lot of folks talking about Clasrkson, but if he is on LTIR, his cap hit can be used if needed, ya? But what could be done? Rumor has is Cody Eakin and or Ryan Reeves could be traded. Would you take one of those expiring contracts in order to get Gusev? Is this proposal too outrageous? to DET : Nikta Gusev, Ryan Reeves (or another contract dump,) Conditional 1st (top 10 protected 2020 or 2021) to VGK : 2020 2nd (Washington) ...I only put the 1st in there because of what Toronto had to give up to dump Marleau and they only got a 6th in return, I'm giving back a 2nd.

if we seriously have a shot at Gusev, we need to get him here! Vegas has to give him up. it shouldn't even cost us Berggren. Hell, Toronto had to give up a 1st just to dump Marleau. our 2020 2nd round pick (considering it should be in the 30's) should get him here. I'd be ok with that. we've got a ton of prospects, we woul dnt miss one 2nd.

Detroit will take Clarkson's contract. it'll cost you Gusev though! Saw that on Twitter.... i think that would work for us!

so, it's rumored that Yzerman still may get another fwd and D. if so, what would guys say to: Jake Gardiner Brian Boyle both on 1 or 2 year deals.

did Gardiner sign anywhere?