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Created by: Angry_Canucklehead

Team: 2020-21 Detroit Red Wings

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 2, 2020

Published: Mar. 12, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

This would be turning the worst team of the century into a fringe playoff contender by accelerating the rebuild.
There's still a lot of cap space, draft picks and young core players - they're set to do well and are an up-and-coming team, not a 40-point AHL caliber team with a bunch of goofs.
Goaltending is very poor but can it even get any worse than it is right now? A Scott Foster-David Ayres duo would do way better than Bernier (who's actually started to play very very very well) and Jimmy Howard who can't stop a beach ball.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Mantha, Anthony	5	$6,500,000
Bertuzzi, Tyler	5	$5,000,000
Fabbri, Robby	2	$3,500,000
Svechnikov, Evgeny	3	$925,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Edmundson, Joel	4	$5,000,000
Greiss, Thomas	2	$3,000,000
Hammond, Andrew	3	$925,000
Dillon, Brenden	3	$3,200,000
Granlund, Mikael	3	$4,000,000

Trades

DET

Lucic, Milan
2020 1st round pick (CGY)

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Wings absorb a nasty contract

CGY

Bernier, Jonathan ($1,500,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Flames add an underrated (but not great) goalie at a cheap cap hit and clear out a bunch of cap space. It's not cheap but it never is to get rid of a contract like that

DET

Niemeläinen, Markus [Reserve List]

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Niemelainen isn't special, he's a future top 6 defenceman at best. Huge and physical.

EDM

Helm, Darren ($1,925,000 retained)

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Helm is a great penalty killer with a lot of speed. Too bad he has bricks for hands. Very useful in a contender's bottom six though and could be alright with McDavid as he can keep up.

DET

Hertl, Tomas

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Hertl would give the Red Wings another very good - not elite, but very good - skill player for their top six. Hertl can play center or wing too which helps. He's near the same age as Mantha and Bertuzzi as well and will get the Wings a lot closer to winning

SJS

Cholowski, Dennis
Hirose, Taro [RFA Rights]
2020 1st round pick (CGY)

Additional Details:

I think San Jose would need to move Hertl in order to actually rebuild which is what they need to do at this point. Hertl is one of their most valuable pieces and in this case they get two prospects with good upside as well as a first round pick.

DET

2021 2nd round pick (TOR)

Additional Details:

Detroit frees up a roster spot for a young guy, probably Svechnikov

TOR

Filppula, Valtteri ($1,500,000 retained)
2021 3rd round pick (VGK)

Additional Details:

Filppula does have value in a bottom six as he can kill penalties and brings a good veteran and defensive presence with a Cup to his name. Eating salary would be a must in a Filppula trade

Buyouts

Stephen Weiss: $1,666,667

Retained Salary Transactions

Jonathan Bernier: $1,500,000 (50%)
Darren Helm: $1,925,000 (50%)
Valtteri Filppula: $1,500,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$88,000,000	$74,183,333	$0	$2,202,500	$13,816,667

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Fabbri, Robby $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW UFA - 2	Larkin, Dylan $6,100,000$6,100,000 C UFA - 3	Mantha, Anthony $6,500,000$6,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4
Bertuzzi, Tyler $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Hertl, Tomas $5,625,000$5,625,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Zadina, Filip $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 2
Granlund, Mikael $4,000,000$4,000,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Veleno, Joseph $894,167$894,167 ($212,500$212K) C RFA - 3	Svechnikov, Evgeny $925,000$925,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Lucic, Milan $5,250,000$5,250,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 3	Glendening, Luke $1,800,000$1,800,000 C, RW, LW UFA - 1	Rasmussen, Michael $894,166$894,166 ($850,000$850K) LW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Edmundson, Joel $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Hronek, Filip $714,166$714,166 ($157,500$158K) RD RFA - 1
Nemeth, Patrik $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD UFA - 1	Seider, Moritz $894,167$894,167 RD RFA - 4
	Lindström, Gustav $775,833$775,833 ($132,500$132K) RD RFA - 1	Greiss, Thomas $3,000,000$3,000,000 G UFA - 2
Dillon, Brenden $3,200,000$3,200,000 LD UFA - 4		Hammond, Andrew $925,000$925,000 G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Nielsen, Frans $5,250,000$5,250,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 2		Zetterberg, Henrik $6,083,333$6,083,333 C UFA - 1
Abdelkader, Justin $4,250,000$4,250,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 3		DeKeyser, Danny $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2
Hicketts, Joe $700,000$700,000 LD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Hronek, F.		Bertuzzi, T.		Mantha, A.
	Larkin, D.		Hertl, T.

Power Play 2
Fabbri, R.		Rasmussen, M.		Zadina, F.
	Seider, M.		Veleno, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Larkin, D.	Glendening, L.
	Edmundson, J.	Seider, M.

Penalty Kill 2
	Hertl, T.	Svechnikov, E.
	Dillon, B.	Nemeth, P.

Mar. 12, 2020 at 1:06 p.m.

goodfella

Grierless Sharks Fan

Joined: Dec. 2017

Posts: 2,957

Likes: 927

I don't think you're as close as you think you are on all of these trades.

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Mar. 12, 2020 at 1:27 p.m.

Angry_Canucklehead

Thread Starter

Wishin I Was Fishin

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 115

Likes: 9

Quoting: goodfella

I don't think you're as close as you think you are on all of these trades.

tbh i didn't think so either at this point i'm a wings fan with my sad fan paper bag on my head. felt like giving myself hope even if its really unrealistic lol

Mar. 12, 2020 at 1:31 p.m.

aedoran

Joined: Dec. 2017

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Quoting: goodfella

I don't think you're as close as you think you are on all of these trades.

Kind of sugar coating it. With those moves I'm not sure he should even be allowed to watch the Wings.

Mar. 12, 2020 at 1:39 p.m.

Klara

Bad Take Bot v1.02

Joined: Aug. 2019

Posts: 2,684

Likes: 1,881

Hertl is the piece the sharks should be rebuilding around, not trading away, especially for that bad of a haul.

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Mar. 12, 2020 at 4:19 p.m.

will9739

Will9739

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 893

Likes: 308

Quoting: aedoran

Kind of sugar coating it. With those moves I'm not sure he should even be allowed to watch the Wings.

No one wants to watch the Wings this year. Having done so myself almost 70 times this year (NHL Center Ice blackouts, you know) I can tell you that a good bourbon helps ease the pain.

Mar. 16, 2020 at 4:34 a.m.

AnyoneButTheBruins

StevieY19!!

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 1,068

Likes: 690

Quoting: aedoran

Kind of sugar coating it. With those moves I'm not sure he should even be allowed to watch the Wings.

Yep fully agree. Don't understand why fans quickly jump to firing the coach as the quick fix too. This team is just awful! It's not Blashill's fault. He is a well respected coach among the players in the dressing room plus he has good experience winning with our young core in the AHL. Please tell me what is so bad about Blashill. I know he shuffles lines a lot but other than that what?!?

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