My Ideal Draft

Team: 2023-24 Detroit Red Wings

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 27, 2023

Published: Jun. 27, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

I am 100% of the party that believes Detroit is at least 1 year away from needing to make big moves for an established difference maker via trade and I believe it’d be a mistake to expedite our rebuild a year too early.

We have an enviable fortune of having 5 picks in the top 43 of a talented/special draft class this year and trading those very valuable picks just doesn’t make sense to me. We still have two (2) 1st round picks NEXT year to swing a deal for a star player when we’re more serious about contending.

We have a ton of cap space (and we’ll still have it next year) with nobody to sign this year and a special crop of talent in next year’s FA class.

We are void of legitimate top 6 talent in our prospect pipeline and have nothing to speak of in terms of RHD prospects.

Let’s load the pipeline up with high end talent and bring in veterans to compete (like we did last year) and let the fireworks pop NEXT YEAR.

I understand these deals may come across as unrealistic but I tried to make the values match up at least.

I also didn’t bother with free agency but there’s a couple players I’d sign.

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