Where did Yzerman go wrong with the rebuild?

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Correct. But using " we signed them to get to the cap floor" as an excuse for signing them doesn't hold water.

A team of this quality should not currently be up against the cap considering the space we had a few years ago.
It does hold water.

Any team in the league would have signed players like Copp, Compher, and Chiarot if they had the holes at 2/3C and in their top 4 on defense we did combined with the amount of cap we had.
 

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Walman having 8 points already is pretty indicative that the system here in Detroit is atrocious. I mean maybe the eye test and advanced stats say his game isn’t actually as good as the box score says, but that’s looking like an all time bad trade by yzerman.
 
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lilidk

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Walman having 8 points already is pretty indicative that the system here in Detroit is atrocious. I mean maybe the eye test and advanced stats say his game isn’t actually as good as the box score says, but that’s looking like an all time bad trade by yzerman.
We might never know , but something was probably going
 

wingsfannn919191

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Walman having 8 points already is pretty indicative that the system here in Detroit is atrocious. I mean maybe the eye test and advanced stats say his game isn’t actually as good as the box score says, but that’s looking like an all time bad trade by yzerman.
I dont care that walman is gone. I'm bothered that we threw away a 2nd round pick when there was zero need. And for ppl making excuses on trouba...i dont care if his plan was to land him,you only make that move when you acquire him

Poor asset management
 

Coach Reggie Dunlop

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I dont care that walman is gone. I'm bothered that we threw away a 2nd round pick when there was zero need. And for ppl making excuses on trouba...i dont care if his plan was to land him,you only make that move when you acquire him

Poor asset management
Trouba sucks also with a similarly awful contract to ones that yzerman gives out. No surprise he wanted to trade for him. Dude went to the Ken holland school of handing out term to old geezers that the game has passed by.
 

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Walman having 8 points already is pretty indicative that the system here in Detroit is atrocious. I mean maybe the eye test and advanced stats say his game isn’t actually as good as the box score says, but that’s looking like an all time bad trade by yzerman.
I don’t know that it’s an issue with the system. Dude got plenty of opportunity here and never had more than 9 assists in a season. He scored some timely goals for us but never looked like a plus puck mover to me.

If anything I think it might be an indication that we were more concerned with getting rid of him than getting the most value back. It seems like we felt like getting a 2nd for Gibson justified the hasty moving of Walman. Possibly some emotions involved too.
 

wingsfannn919191

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Trouba sucks also with a similarly awful contract to ones that yzerman gives out. No surprise he wanted to trade for him. Dude went to the Ken holland school of handing out term to old geezers that the game has passed by.
At least he would have provided us with some toughness and was only a 2 year attachment to him

But yes the copp compher signings were bad from day 1
 

Zetterberg4Captain

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It does hold water.

Any team in the league would have signed players like Copp, Compher, and Chiarot if they had the holes at 2/3C and in their top 4 on defense we did combined with the amount of cap we had.

Did any other team do that or were all other teams more competent at those positions?

Genuine question
 

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(After Red Wings draft him)

Does the Yzerplan keep him in school 1 more year or send him up right away?
 

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