GDT: Free Agent Frenzy

[GarlicbreadTB]

That's a good bit of business. Oilers are all in to win and Skinner gets ice time with two of the best forwards in the game. He could easily put up 50 goals.

McDavid's gonna help him get a great contract next year.

 

[Henkka]

Won't every teams youth grow or is that just restricted to Detroit?

Does every team have youth? With potential of Seider/Raymond/Edvinsson who will make bigger projected jumps that some lesser youth?

And if they do, many teams did lose depth because their youth is getting expensive. Or, they are throwing moronic contracts to UFAs.

Wings youth is getting also expensive. But Wings did lose only Perron. And got full-season still-ELITE-Kane to replace his production.

 

[ShanahanMan]

Jeff Skinner to Edmonton. 3m at 1 year.

Exactly the contract I was hoping for. And from Holland no less. Sigh

 

[GarlicbreadTB]

Exactly the contract I was hoping for. And from Holland no less. Sigh

Not there anymore I thought?

 

[Oddbob]

Does every team have youth? With potential of Seider/Raymond/Edvinsson who will make bigger projected jumps that some lesser youth?

And if they do, many teams did lose depth because their youth is getting expensive. Or, they are throwing moronic contracts to UFAs.

Wings youth is getting also expensive. But Wings did lose only Perron. And got full-season still-ELITE-Kane to replace his production.

Kane is definitely not elite anymore.

 

[lidstromiscool]

Does every team have youth? With potential of Seider/Raymond/Edvinsson who will make bigger projected jumps that some lesser youth?

And if they do, many teams did lose depth because their youth is getting expensive. Or, they are throwing moronic contracts to UFAs.

Wings youth is getting also expensive. But Wings did lose only Perron. And got full-season still-ELITE-Kane to replace his production.

Actually Detroit has one of the oldest rosters in the league, so most other teams have even more youth. It's also worth noting that Detroit had some of the best shooting % luck in the NHL last season so some regression is to be expected. Seider/Raymond/Edvinsson are great pieces, but hardly in the upper echelon of the NHL when it comes to building a team around.

 

[kook10]

Actually Detroit has one of the oldest rosters in the league, so most other teams have even more youth. It's also worth noting that Detroit had some of the best shooting % luck in the NHL last season so some regression is to be expected. Seider/Raymond/Edvinsson are great pieces, but hardly in the upper echelon of the NHL when it comes to building a team around.

oooh, watch out - The Stans will get their pitchforks out.

 

[Run the Jewels]

Exactly the contract I was hoping for. And from Holland no less. Sigh

Holland um 'parted ways' with Edmonton. Otherwise Skinner would have been given a 5 year contract north of $5 million with a no movement clause. I kid.

Does anyone know if Zegras is truly on the market? I see posts stating this as fact but I haven't followed the situation closely. Unfortunately their fans seem to want a RD which isn't something we can really swing. But damn, a young skilled center would be pretty bad ass.

 

[Zetterberg4Captain]

Does every team have youth? With potential of Seider/Raymond/Edvinsson who will make bigger projected jumps that some lesser youth?

And if they do, many teams did lose depth because their youth is getting expensive. Or, they are throwing moronic contracts to UFAs.

Wings youth is getting also expensive. But Wings did lose only Perron. And got full-season still-ELITE-Kane to replace his production.

Ottawa and Buffalo's NHL youth just in our division is better than ours and both teams overall are younger and honestly, Mtl is not that far behind either...

I would take Tkachuk, Stutzle and Sanderson or Dahlin, Power and Thompson ahead of Seider,Raymond and Edvinsson and that is not and should not be knock on any of them..

 

[odin1981]

No bad deals made today. I'm happy. Hopefully over the next week we get RFA deals for Seider and Raymond. And 1-2 trades. Good day today.

 

[datsyukfan]

Don’t hate any of the moves on an individual level but my god this was a fail. 0 impact players added

 

[Euro Twins]

Even during the part of the season that Edvinsson played our blue line was clearly not good enough. I don't disagree with you that he'll improve and help our team but if the only improvement on our blue line is Edvinsson's internal growth, I think that's both disappointing from a team-growth point of view and also just an unfair situation to put a kid like that in.

No less fair than what seider and Larkin got

And what about the other guys who didn’t even reach the honor of sitting in the press box in your scenario?

F them

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

I think Detroit knows that they're really not very far away from having to start over on the rebuild.

 

[Tatar Shots]

Would have loved to add Janmark. What an amazing finals he had.

 

[CaptainZetterberg40]

If there’s one thing I can appreciate it’s the flexibility we continue to have moving forward. But I honestly wonder what year will be the year we inject true elite talent to supplement what we already have. I get it, we’re not fully ready as a team to make that step off the back of Seider Raymond Larkin Debrincat and Edvinsson. At least that’s how I feel Yzerman feels. But what window are we operating on? The remaining years of Dylan Larkin? What he has a good 5 years of productivity left? Or are we operating on the hope and wish of Seider, Raymond and Edvinsson being the Elite backbone of this team to build on? That’s probably another 8-10 years of prime years we can rely on. At some point we need to put all the chips on the table. I just wonder when it will be.

 

[ZDH]

I think Detroit knows that they're really not very far away from having to start over on the rebuild.

 

[Euro Twins]

Ottawa and Buffalo's NHL youth just in our division is better than ours and both teams overall are younger and honestly, Mtl is not that far behind either...

I would take Tkachuk, Stutzle and Sanderson or Dahlin, Power and Thompson ahead of Seider,Raymond and Edvinsson and that is not and should not be knock on any of them..

Ottawa is imploding right on schedule. Buffalo will still fall apart...

 

[ShanahanMan]

I think Detroit knows that they're really not very far away from having to start over on the rebuild.

Which would mean that Steve’s tenure has been a failure

 

[datsyukfan]

Which would mean that Steve’s tenure has been a failure

It really has been.

 

[Zetterberg4Captain]

Ottawa is imploding right on schedule. Buffalo will still fall apart...

In what way exactly?

The discussion was explicitly about the internal growth of youth...

 

[raymond23]

These contracts have been insane

This is going to be a UFA season we talk about in a few years when half these deals fall apart

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Restart rebuild?

 

[schuelma24]

If opening night starts without an upgrade on D I'll be disappointed. But not going to doom on July 1. Still think Wings are set up well to pull off a big trade - and I'm really really glad no dumb long term moves were made today.

 

[minimal]

I think Detroit knows that they're really not very far away from having to start over on the rebuild.

Definitely, keep drafting and ditching prospects until there's at least four top three picks.

If you're sick of the team not making the playoffs now, how is anyone going to be happier by extending at least five years?

 

[norrisnick]

If opening night starts without an upgrade on D I'll be disappointed. But not going to doom on July 1. Still think Wings are set up well to pull off a big trade - and I'm really really glad no dumb long term moves were made today.

Yeah, that's where I'm at right now. Something has to give. We have 4 LD that I'm comfortable with giving a 2nd pairing workload. No RD behind Mo.

XXX - Mo
Ed - XXX
Chiarot - Petry

Gustafsson
Maatta
Johansson
Holl

I don't see good partners for Mo or Ed. Best option as is, is probably themselves. But that just moves Chiarot - Petry back into pairing 2 duty. And... we can't run that back. The lack of a 2RD is crippling. With a solid 2nd pairing we can slide someone up with Mo, but that 2nd pair can't feature Petry or Holl. And we can't go back to Chiarot - Mo for a 3rd consecutive season.

At this point... if the Trouba thing isn't dead, Trouba at $5.5M for future considerations is about all we can hope for.