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Cheap depth scoring for them but there's a reason no team will give him a long contract or much money. I'll miss his wicked shot when it was on but he didn't do a whole lot else.

I think Veleno is a way better player than Kostin though (at a more valuable position too), and while I agree it feels high... in looking at similar players on similar contracts it doesn't seem that crazy to me honestly: Kurashev kinda makes it look bad, but he signed that deal after a 25 point campaign the season before. Joe won 49% of his faceoffs and played both ways on special teams. In the end it might be a slight overpay but it seems pretty in line with the rest of the league and the cap is going up. The filters I used were players aged 23-25 that play center and have a cap hit between $1 million and $2.8 million. You can see their stats on the right there, I wish it saved bigger though.

Ouch that's Zadina territory 😂

I'm honestly not counting on it, I don't think he has enough hockey sense in the end.

No arbitration hearing. I'm not a huge fan of Veleno's so this feels a little high to me but not by much I guess. I saw a few projections ~$200-300k less per year. I will say every now and then he does stuff that makes you think there's a productive player in there somewhere, so hopefully he finds some consistency with more experience and maturing.

This is super intriguing to me, usually if they expect a player to play in Europe / Sweden (Raymond, Edvinnsson, Kasper) they don't come back to Detroit for their camp. Reading between the lines there's a decent chance he's playing in the AHL or even NHL depending on how camp goes. This would be his first season with Skelleftea so I'm guessing they want him at their camp just in case he does end up back in Europe in the SHL. MBN did say Yzerman told him that they want him to make the NHL club out of training camp, but my guess is they tell every prospect coming to camp that?

Ya I believe she's in the last year of her residency in New York or something like that? I can't blame him as much as it sucks for the Wings. I blame that Brooks guy in New York media for leaking the trade info:

I've seen it reported a few places that they had a trade in place and Trouba said no

MBN is signed!

Ya after the Wings had a historically bad season in 19/20 (37th worst points percentage in the entire history of the NHL and 5th lowest total points for any NHL team ever!!!) and picked 4th I've been convinced that straight up tanking isn't going to get it done (or just looking at a team like Buffalo). If the Wings had just a little luck or neutral luck they'd probably be in the playoffs already but it has been a grind.

It is really en vogue to trash Yzerman and the Yzerplan. Many people forget how awful not only was the regular roster, but their prospects were pretty barren as well. Here's the roster that he took over: https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/DET/2020.html Highest point scorer was 53 points and a decrepit Danny DeKeyser was their second most played defender. Madison Bowey played 53 games! Plus like buddha said, it is clickbait. Wings fans are all over the internet and it is instant engagement when you question Yzerman and what he's done. He hasn't been perfect, but with what he was given and with no lottery luck I'm not sure what people want.

its….something

I just watched a 28 minute twitter video of Duran playing some of the worst defense I've ever seen so any center depth seems like a great idea lol

Sadly, I personally think Petry is the right partner for Simon as it stands with this group. It would have been nice if Trouba didn't say no to the Wings so we could shift Chiarot down to pair with Edvinsson. Petry is a year older and slower as you say though so it'll be an interesting ride. I thought Petry was fine for a majority of the time last season but man he makes really weird coverage mistakes randomly.

I got close to Max Bultman's projection he just released: DeBrincat - Larkin - Raymond Tarasenko - Compher - Kane Rasmussen - Copp - Fischer Berggren - Veleno - Motte He too seems to like that first line with how they were playing at the end of last season. He sees the defense like: Chiarot - Seider Edvinsson - Petry Maata - Gustaffson Johansson - Holl Makes sense to me. I wish they would trade one of Maata / Petry / Holl but if this is what they have I guess it makes sense. Wondering if the Wings use any sort of buyout now that they have another window with the Veleno arbitration

Danielson apparently looked great at the prospect tournament. The coaches certainly raved about him. I’m really excited to see how he looks in preseason games.

Love this kid's release, he really manipulates the face of his blade to disguise where he's shooting and then gets it off quickish

I thought the DeBrincat / Larkin / Raymond line played well last season (much better than when DBC was with Kane I feel like all he does is want to pass to Kane), I couldn't figure out a free site with season long line stats but I did see in their last game DeBrincat / Larkin / Raymond was by far their best line in that game. I also don't mind Tarasenko on his off wing for one timers from Kane either. I don't think the handedness is that big of a deal but that's just me.

I think he still has a chance but it is definitely slimmer now.

Oh jeez I just straight up forgot about him (or I guess scratched him in the press box lol)

I don't hate it! I was thinking: DeBrincat - Larkin - Raymond Tarasenko - Compher - Kane Rasmussen - Copp - Danielson Motte - Veleno - Fischer I like DeBrincat away from Kane at 5 on 5. Though my second line I have to feel for poor Compher he isn't getting much help defensively there. Danielson can be swapped with a Mazur or Kasper potentially for me, I just feel like he's going to make the team for some reason. It does feel like they could sign another forward, but who is left looks pretty grim.

Looking at his stats it seems like he'll just be an ECHL body but goalies are weird so you never know. He's tall at least! I am getting anxious for the Seider and Raymond contracts here....

A couple of interesting moves, I had felt like Fabbri was a bit redundant on this roster. Hopefully Tarasenko can be a ~50 point player over that contract, not too bad of a cap hit.