Quoting: Benchwarmer4Life
DonDetroit fans even want a starting Goalie right now? Are you guys in tank mode?
Alexandar Georgiev, Tristan Jarry/ Matt Murray via trade are the goalies I hope they are targeting. Not a soon to be 31 year old goalie cap dump for an LTIR contract (asset) + 32nd overall + high 50's overall: what are you smoking? That same group of assets should easily land one of Georgiev/Jarry/Murrray.
No they aren't in tank mode. Ken Holland screwed them with bad contracts: Darren Helm, Frans Nielsen and Justin Abdelkader ate $13.35 million of cap space and scored 13 goals combined. They got off to a terrible start after losing their top d-man, Danny DeKeyser, plus their leading scorer, Anthony Mantha, to injuries. They then had a patchwork lineup of NHLers and AHLers. As they choose not to bring up some of their best prospects to preserve their ELC's (Moritz Seider, Joe Veleno, and even demoted Michael Rasmussen plus held Zadina down in the AHL until well into November). They scored a league-low 2.00 goals per game had the league’s worst penalty kill and were 29th on the power play.
And the Wings could vary well roll with Bernier. He kept them in most games even when they didn't deserve to be as shown by his decent stats other than W-L:
Jonathan Bernier
Stats: 46 games, 15-22-3 record, 2.95 GAA, .907 SVS, 1 shutout. On a team that only won 17 games that's somewhat impressive..
Beyond that the UFA/RFA/available goalie market is a buyers market so there will be better options available.