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DeKeyser re-signed to a 6 year deal

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Breakdown...

16-17 3M /1M bonus

17-18 5m /500k bonus

18-19 5m /500k bonus

19-20 5m /500k bonus

20-21 4.5m

21-22 4.5m /500k bonus

3 year NTC from 17-18 through 19-20.

Last year and a half of contract is modified NTC (10 team list).

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Hah

Lol people on twitter calling it "the next Ericsson contract".

Smh

Ridiculous, as many of us know. Barring injuries I can guarantee he will rightfully defend his salary and belong in the top 4 of this team. I am fine with 5m x 6y.

Edited by Jacksoni

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No one here yet... a lot of backlash on Twitter though...

Unfortunately a large portion of the Red Wings fanbase have become insufferable. There is literally nothing to complain about with this deal at all. 5 million per season for a dman of his calibre coming into his prime is as ideal as it gets. Some ***** at the term, but he'll be only 32 when the deal is up. I see no issue.

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I'm not going to moan about it, but it is more than I was thinking he is worth, but exactly what I expected he'd get. Someone above mentioned that this is the going rate for a 2nd pairing guy, but I'm not sure that's the case....I think there is 15 or so teams in the league that have either no guys or only 1 D man making more than $5M...some have 2, less have 3.

I always seem to be surprised at the length and the $ amounts of the deals that Kenny puts together, I guess it's a bit of a risk he normally takes....some work out really well and others don't. DD is still young enough that the length won't be an issue and I guess Kenny is hoping the deal will look better towards the end of the deal vs today.

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I just read up more on this deal. It's actually better than expected since it contains bonus clauses, without them Danny is at 27 million. Here's the breakdown.

16-17 3M /1M bonus
17-18 5m /500k bonus
18-19 5m /500k bonus
19-20 5m /500k bonus
20-21 4.5m
21-22 4.5m /500k bonus

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I'm not going to moan about it, but it is more than I was thinking he is worth, but exactly what I expected he'd get. Someone above mentioned that this is the going rate for a 2nd pairing guy, but I'm not sure that's the case....I think there is 15 or so teams in the league that have either no guys or only 1 D man making more than $5M...some have 2, less have 3.

I always seem to be surprised at the length and the $ amounts of the deals that Kenny puts together, I guess it's a bit of a risk he normally takes....some work out really well and others don't. DD is still young enough that the length won't be an issue and I guess Kenny is hoping the deal will look better towards the end of the deal vs today.

Gotta imagine a lot of these second pairing dmen making under 5 mil are probably on a contract signed when they had a lot of RFA years left. Complete speculation of course, but this was the deal to prevent him from going UFA next summer. He'd have made at least 5 mil had he hit the open market next summer.

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Yeah, but at the end of the day it's caphit that matters.


Gotta imagine a lot of these second pairing dmen making under 5 mil are probably on a contract signed when they had a lot of RFA years left. Complete speculation of course, but this was the deal to prevent him from going UFA next summer. He'd have made at least 5 mil had he hit the open market next summer.

Agreed, had he gone to arbitration he would have gotten 1 year and something a bit lower and we would have ended up having to re-sign him right before he hit free agency and who knows what we would have had to pay at that point.. $6 million? $7 million? Cap's going up yearly it seems and so are these wacky market values.

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Yeah, but at the end of the day it's caphit that matters.

Agreed, had he gone to arbitration he would have gotten 1 year and something a bit lower and we would have ended up having to re-sign him right before he hit free agency and who knows what we would have had to pay at that point.. $6 million? $7 million? Cap's going up yearly it seems and so are these wacky market values.

He would have gotten more than 5 per year at shorter term, making this deal decently good at the very least.

Let's buckle up here. We are short on quality defenders. DeKeyser was a late bloomer who signed with us at 23, he was not drafted. Lidström recently (I think may 2016) in an interview said that Danny has the goods to be a great defenseman. Good enough for me. For a few years at least.

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