Why Wings fans

Created by: LeonardoNoCardio

Team: 2023-24 Detroit Red Wings

Initial Creation Date: May 12, 2023

Published: May 12, 2023

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

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I completely disagree with the whole nototion that the Red Wings is in any kind of rush. I see a lot Wings fans who think it's a good idea to trade for - Kyle Connor, Hellebuyck, Konecky...etc. Why? Can we afford to make the Red Wings version of the Erat/Forsberg? These guys are also UFA's soon and could either leave or ask for way too much money. Wasted picks / Prospects while we are not even contenders.

Yzerman did not wanna give Bertuzzi a long term contract. So why would he give 31y old Hellebuyck that? Or 28y old Konecny? We make the Playoffs and lose these guys for nothing. Poor asset management. Or would we rather have couple really good prospects on their ELC's at that point? I would say so.

Slow and steady wins the race and this isn't a sprint. Trading future for now is the mistake of the past. We can't suck forever, but we need to be patient.

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Justin Abdelkader: $1,055,556

Retained Salary Transactions

Jakub Vrána: $2,625,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
16	$83,500,000	$52,225,555	$0	$4,407,500	$31,274,445

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Perron, David $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Larkin, Dylan $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NTC UFA - 8	Raymond, Lucas $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) RW, LW RFA - 1
Kubalik, Dominik $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Copp, Andrew $5,625,000$5,625,000 C, LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 4	Berggren, Jonatan $925,000$925,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
Fabbri, Robby $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW UFA - 2	Kasper, Marco $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) C RFA - 3	Zadina, Filip $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
Rasmussen, Michael $1,460,000$1,460,000 LW, C UFA - 1		Söderblom, Elmer $878,333$878,333 ($57,500$58K) LW, C RFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Walman, Jake $3,400,000$3,400,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Seider, Moritz $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 1	Husso, Ville $4,750,000$4,750,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Määttä, Olli $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD UFA - 2	Chiarot, Ben $4,750,000$4,750,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3

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May 12, 2023 at 7:38 p.m.

GeneralLandro

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 15,607

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Some great points there, my friend

Not a Wings fan but I agree with you on the topic

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May 12, 2023 at 7:43 p.m.

FireLordZuk0

Joined: Feb. 2023

Posts: 501

Likes: 137

As a wings fan, you make excellent points! We don’t want to be bad, but we don’t want to be stuck in the middle. We didn’t want an injury prone Bert, but are interested in trading for a ready now player? I do think there is no wrong way to go, but getting a Connor or Debrincat definitely puts you more upper middle. However, you cannot deny the fact that we might have a chance at one of those players in a draft pick we select with. Personally, I’d rather select all my picks than trade them. I think it’s a mistake if we rush in this off-season, and should take advantage of teams in cap hell even if it’s for more than a year on the contract.

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May 12, 2023 at 7:46 p.m.

pavelisgoat

Joined: Apr. 2017

Posts: 1,008

Likes: 336

Completely agree. All the trades for Cat or Bratt etc. do make some sense but are not the route I want Yzerman to go

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May 12, 2023 at 8:06 p.m.

buffbry

Buffbry

Joined: Aug. 2017

Posts: 8,954

Likes: 5,369

Kyle Connor is the only one I'd trade for out of all the guys who are mentioned for us constantly. You don't just find a perennial 30+ goal scorer every single year who can wire it. He improves us 5 on 5 and on the PP, legit top 3 forward and we need it. He's not old that he's out of our time window and he's signed for multiple years going forward. If he's made available I'd give up futures for him.

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May 12, 2023 at 8:42 p.m.

Jfstompers

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Joined: Feb. 2018

Posts: 14,652

Likes: 8,293

It's either try to be good or play the kids and be bad, Yzerman punted on this draft by trying to be good and it was a disaster. Then he sold guys at the deadline who we can't replace while signing all the ld longer who we can replace. I have no idea what we're doing it going to do.

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