A week after free agency period opened and the dust has started to settle on the 2019 UFA class. Most teams have made their big signings and the amount of players on the market has shrunk considerably, but it has not dried up completely. There is still a small amount of players out there who…
The Vegas Golden Knights had a late-season win prior to the playoffs when they signed Russian winger Nikita Gusev. Now, with the KHL leading scorer reportedly asking for a two-year, $8-million deal (with an AAV of $4-million), the Golden Knights might be forced to trade him. The Red Wings are one of the teams that…
When you’re in the the hunt for a Stanley Cup, July 1 is a big day. It’s an opportunity to add depth to your roster in the form of a mid-6 or bottom-4 defenseman. Rarely do elite players hit the market, but when they do, teams scramble to create cap space.
As a marketer, we have to make these decision at work all the time: is this a job that can be accomplished internally or externally? In other words, do we have a person with the skills already working for us that can accomplish what we need to accomplish or do we need to outsource the…
The Red Wings shocked the hockey world when they took Moritz Seider with the 6th overall pick at this year’s NHL Entry Draft. With a few projected top-line centers still on the board, Steve Yzerman and his crew opted for a big, right-handed defenseman out of Germany that few had seen going in the top-10.
The top defenseman is such a coveted asset in today’s NHL that when teams land one, they usually lock them up early or oversell them on the trade market. This year’s crop of UFA defensemen was supposed to be much more exciting, but Drew Doughty signed his extension last July and Erik Karlsson just locked…
In the past, the Red Wings have loved their veteran UFA signings so much that they’ve signed Thomas Vanek twice in the last three years. With the team under different leadership now, they’re heading in a different direction. Vanek is once again a free agent, but he’s been informed that there’s not a fit with…
Steve Yzerman has said that he’s going to make some calls and try to be active in free agency, but after looking at the top 5 center UFAs and top 5 LW UFAs, I didn’t see any realistic options that the Red Wings can make a splash with. There are some good players out there,…
Steve Yzerman made a funny little comment in one of his post-draft interviews that any player they took with the 6th overall pick would have fit a positional need. Reading between the lines, Yzerman is saying that they need help at every position. The draft is about filling those holes three or four years down…
Now that the draft has come and gone, Steve Yzerman‘s attention will turn to getting the current iteration of the Red Wings ready for the 2019-20 season. Free Agency period began on Sunday, meaning teams could start talking to pending UFAs and on Monday, the frenzy will begin as they put pen to paper. Yzerman…
For a rebuilding team, draft day is always an important day in franchise history. After another lottery division season, the Detroit Red Wings landed with the 6th overall pick in this year’s NHL Entry Draft. As one of his first moves as General Manager of the Detroit Red Wings, Steve Yzerman selected Moritz Seider at…
Gone are the days where we look at Martin Frk in awe and hope that his mean slap shot will stun goalies in the NHL. Frk has not had an easy road. After winning the Calder Cup with the Grand Rapids Griffins, he was hoping that he’d be NHL bound to quarterback Detroit’s power play….
