Who da taco seasoning! 😁

Edmundson comes back at almost 50% of what hes making now? To be your 7th?

Domi after a good show me year comes back long term for just 4mil, or about 30% of what matthews makes?

SEA retains over 4.5mil to take on a 11mil UFA to be and a bunch of RFAs?

And two goalies who have never played 35 games in a season?

You leaf fans are insane

TOR fans: look so desperate, like 500 acgm every day of the same failed ideas with everyone telling them no, but yet they keep trying.
It's like Charlie Brown trying to kick a football.
You're never going to connect kid

Paying lazy Mantha 5 mil is a head scratcher for me. 🤔

May as well just re-sign Bert.

Is Mantha physical

Nope.

Maybe with his mouthguard.

He's a notorious Floater who's in love with his shot.

Oh, I thought he was

A threw a few hits this season because he's a UFA.

Some as opposed to none.

Some sucker GM will sign Mantha and he'll return to being the big lazy floater he's always been.

It's why he dropped in the draft and it's why Yzerman traded him.

He's lazy.

Evolving-Hockey has Edmundson at less than 2 million for a 1 year deal (not what he's worth, just what he's projected to get). Although while I kinda doubt that he'll take a one year deal, he's a bottom pairing defenseman at best, he probably shouldn't be making much more than that anyway.

Washington also offered him a player who (at the time) was nearly as good plus a bunch of good picks so even if you thought Mantha was a good player it was a no brainer for Yzerman to make that trade.

And where's Vrana now? 🤔

It doesn't matter, my point is that Detroit was coming out ahead no matter what by taking that Washington trade. They didn't trade Mantha because they thought he was a flawed player (as evidenced by the fact that they got a similarly flawed player back and basically gave him Mantha's contract right away, clearly Yzerman wasn't opposed to one-dimensional hitting-averse wingers). They traded Mantha because Washington made them an offer they couldn't refuse.

Now that both players have busted for both teams, Washington is left with basically nothing and Detroit has their potential goalie of the future. Good asset management more than good player analysis.

SEA easily declines. Not moving Wright even if Marner extends. To expensive of a contract extension and it is to early for SEA to be giving up on Wright. On top of that you are also asking SEA to retain 4.5M on top of taking Marner at 11M, for a bunch of RFA's?