Prospects needs to learn from someone. Bring couple good players and team will be killed in the first round. Bring only kids and their confidence level could be hurt. It's have to be hybrid skills and prospects
I’m not calling it a bust after 1 day, but nothing has happened so far that is positive apart from a decent Kane signing (which I personally don’t love as I genuinely think he makes the players around him worse because guys on his line defer to him way too much). I’m not sure why we should be giving Yzerman the benefit of the doubt when he has not made any significant successful FA or trade additions to the team in his entire tenure here, apart from DBC who fell into his lap as he only wanted to come here.
Yea, I get that but we also need to move a goalie out which I assume to be Husso in some sort of deal, were not sending Cossa back to the ECHL. Either behind the scenes Husso is in worse shape and heading to LTIR or a trade goes down is my guess. I guess my thing is what deal today would you have paid up to make happen? I get Stamkos but 4 years at 9 to 10 million to beat out Nash and their 0 tax in my mind is too much. Assume we had to not just match but beat another offer, who was a miss on day 1?
Yzerman is starting the probe that he is just not a good GM. I know everyone hates all the signings around the league today but we should have done 1 of them for one if he top guys. We don’t draft elite talent because we don’t suck enough. Perfect opportunity to grab a high end talent this UFA. After Raymond and seider we have no real major extensions for at least the next few years.
Skinner, Teravainen, Pesce, Roy, Arvidsson, all signed reasonable deals. Duclair too. Roy maybe a year too long but not terrible at that AAV. We needed to add somebody. We did nothing except add two terrible goalies and a 6/7D.
If only Steve could turn back time.... gotta suffer through fall and winter to get back to spring.
I get this, but Arvidsson and Skinner just signed to play for the team that lost the cup in game 7, so we weren't even in that conversation at that price. Devils are ahead of us as far as star talent with signing Pesce, I would say Roy and Teravainen would be the two I would have liked to look into but we have no clue on the circumstances. Chance we weren;t even on the Radar for the players, not everyone wants to play here.
To get those superstar talents next draft or the draft after, you can't be in the playoff race in March. You gotta suck, like really suck, to complete that part of the rebuild. That's the problem with the Wings rebuild, you can't start collecting solid complimentary pieces and develop solid young players and thus turn yourself in a middling team and then expect Connor McDavid or Connor Bedard to fall into your lap. They did it the wrong way around because they didn't wanna wait any longer.
However will we survive without Perron's untimely penalties, a healthy scratched Walman, and the defensively invisible Ghost??
Remember last night when we thought we'd have Stamkos, Trouba and Kane? Best laid plans....
I get it, but Media will do Media things. For all we know was Yzermans best offer was 5 million for 3 years. We could have truly never been in the conversation outside of the were going after him. The offense we will get worked out, you can always find mid six forwards, the D is where Yzerman will have to find away, he will have to pull some strings, lets see if he can.
A few other not "sure things" are 1. that there is a true superstar at the top of the draft and 2. the necessary lottery luck to get them.
I resent you calling it my "needle".
This is pretty spot on. The sad reality is that we aren't even through this rebuild, and it looks like we need already need to rebuild again. This rebuild has been smoke and mirrors for a few years. Yes Detroit has improved every year, but it hasn't been organically. Literally any team at the bottom of the league could have singed Copp/Perron/Ghost/or any other veteran player and gotten out of the bottom and still not made the playoffs. Does anyone actually think the core of this team is good enough to compete with teams like Toronto/Boston/New York/Carolina? Or any of the western teams? If so, I'd love to hear that argument. If not, how does Detroit realistically add the elite talent needed to compete with those teams? Free agency clearly isn't going to work. Drafting (outside of the top 6) has been mediocre at best since Yzerman took over. A franchise player isn't just going to appear out of nowhere. It might be a hot take, but the organization isn't any closer to a Stanley Cup now than they were when Yzerman took over. Sure the team is better, but the end goal is the same distance away.
