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It's worth a shot. He was a highly rated prospect at one time and he's only 23, so maybe a change of scenery will bring out some of whatever it was he showed when he was 18.
What I don't understand is how he got here. CapFriendly says his contract was terminated by Detroit. Obviously that made him a UFA, but how can a team terminate a guy's contract without buying him out? The last time I remember a team terminating a contract was when Evander Kane faked a covid test or something like that, which I assume violated something in the contract terms which allowed the team to walk away from it. Does anybody know under what conditions a team can terminate a player's contract? What did Zadina do to get his contract terminated without Detroit having to buy out the remaining two years? (I know it was past the buyout window, but I thought that meant they were stuck with him until the next buyout window if nobody else wanted to take on his contract.)