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Official 2016 Detroit Red Wings Offseason Thread

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Why did I know it? Nobody wants Helm so Holland will just resign him and out of loyality will also overpay. As always.

Plus he'll rather sign a useless Center rather than to trade for one. Nielsen contract also terrible...goes without saying. Fire Holland. Seen enough of this crap. He had the chance to rebuild on the fly now with all the cap space. Should have done trades. He messed up badly...once again.

Helm would have gotten a similar deal had we let him walk....which I would have been fine with. Especially knowing we were going to sign Nielsen. Nielsen aav is fine, term is two years too long but I'm sure KH felt pressure to get a deal done. I think Nielsen makes the team better. i don't think you get a a top FA in the NHL without significant term these days.

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Helm would have gotten a similar deal had we let him walk....which I would have been fine with. Especially knowing we were going to sign Nielsen. Nielsen aav is fine, term is two years too long but I'm sure KH felt pressure to get a deal done. I think Nielsen makes the team better. i don't think you get a a top FA in the NHL without significant term these days.

We don't even need one of them at those terms. And no, nobody wanted Helm. He's terrible.

Should have signed Shipachev or Staal. Or traded for an available guy like Hanzal. Now we got two terrible players with terrible contracts. Great job, Kenny.

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Damn. We should have went after Staal if he was that cheap.

I've been saying all week he'd be cheap with a short term. Would have given us depth at center long enough for Larkin and AA to develop into legit top 6 centers themselves. Now in 3 years we're gonna have a 5.25 million player we do not need. At least Backes would have had value as a role player in the bottom 6 in a few years.

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Backes will be drawing social security before that contract is up.....good grief!

Let's see...... Backes 32 6-3/225 has 206 career goals and 460 career points gets signed to a 5 year deal at 6 mil per. Neilson 32 6-1/190 has 119 career goals and 349 points. He signs a 6 year deal at 5.25 mil per. This is a bad deal for us. Holland got screwed. Again.

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Let's see...... Backes 32 6-3/225 has 206 career goals and 460 career points gets signed to a 5 year deal at 6 mil per. Neilson 32 6-1/190 has 119 career goals and 349 points. He signs a 6 year deal at 5.25 mil per. This is a bad deal for us. Holland got screwed. Again.

Except Backes will be broken in 2 years. Worst contract of the day.

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