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Plus minus is a wonky stat too, but outside of Suter and maybe Erne I don't think of any of the departed Wings are very good defensively so they should get a nice boost on that end.

Wings signed Nate Danielson to his entry level deal today. Doing it now instead of after next season allows them to slide his contract two seasons if they wish. He would have been too old next year. I'm am guessing he's headed back to the WHL as he's not eligible for the AHL.

I guess now we just need to trade for Erik Karlsson to placate some people who want to win now 👀

I think he would need a lot of lucky bounces for this to happen. He would have to take just over 300 shots to hit 20 goals if his usual shooting percentage carries over, he probably would need to rework his shot/release pretty heavily to get there I would imagine. He has a worse career shooting percentage than Darren Helm, and that's with Zadina shooting double his usual shooting percentage randomly in 28 games in 2019-20. Usually he shoots about 6% which is....not great.

Lol I suspect many fans share the same sentiment. I am ambivalent towards him moving forward myself.

Zadina got 1 year, $1.1 million from San Jose.

I don't expect them in the playoffs because they're in a tough division, but they should be competing until the end for a wild card spot. I think it is likely the top 4 Atlantic teams stay the same, hopefully the Wings are number 5.

For me the first line is Perron - Larkin - DeBrincat. You can’t have two small wingers on line one, ADB is a better player than Raymond right now. Perron has the skill set to dig pucks out and dish it. Perron also can score off one timers, so you can’t give him too much space so hopefully they won’t swarm ADB.

Great work by Yzerman, love every part of this. I’m guessing DeBrincat wouldn’t sign any longer without it being $8 million+ and I’m fine with this resolution. Outside of the first round pick, the Wings probably didn’t give up anything they had real future plans for. I’m excited to see our roster in action next season.

I am pretty sure Elon had to institute that cap on how many tweets you could read because I was refreshing twitter 24 hours straight for ADB news.

I think the Wings will be much improved next season. Adding Compher, Kostin, Sprong and Fischer while losing Zadina, Erne, Suter and guys like Chiasson/Czarnik/Sundqvist who were there part time is a big net win in my eyes. Replacing Oesterle and Hagg with Holl and Gostisbehere is another improvement overall in my eyes, even with them not being perfect players. I have to imagine the corpse of Remier and Lyon can stitch together something similar or better to last season's backup goaltending, hopefully while giving Husso more breaks. Most of the roster will have played in Lalonde's system for a year and feel more familiar. Compher adds depth and PKing. Kostin is big and had the second most fights last season I think. He looked good last playoffs too i thought. Sprong is great depth scoring, will hopefully help the power play. Fischer is hard to play against, hopefully will help in situations like against Ottawa last season where the Wings got pushed around. I can see what Yzerman is going for, and I think the Wings will definitely be a threat for the playoffs.

Between the CTE and the drugs he's headed for an interesting retirement with how much he loves the spotlight

Get it done Stevie! A day later and I still can't believe Zadina is agreeing to terminate his deal lol

It wouldn't be much I imagine, he isn't a superstar to draw people in and those leagues don't pay a ton in general. I tried to google the highest salary in the top Czech league and didn't see anything right away. I can't imagine he would make even say $400k a season but maybe I don't know the European landscape that well. He has to really think he's going to break out somewhere in the NHL (which would surprise the hell out of me).

I saw a rumor that he wouldn't report to the AHL if assigned there. What an ending for a player I had such high hopes for. I can see him bouncing around rosters as a bottom six checker, but unless he suddenly develops some skating explosiveness and/or hockey sense I can't see him ever doing much more.

Drafting Cole Eiserman opens up a lot of joke potential (if it is pronounced like Yzerman), I'm in.

Broken kneecap! This is his first "game" action since I believe. Before camp I think he's just been healing, last I saw of him were pictures of him graduating high school with a few Jagermesiter bottles tied around his neck 😂. He graduated in Sweden and I guess they have a huge party for grads. It is great that he's healed up and ready for camp already.

I haven't been able to watch, random links I've found: I read that Brendan Ali looked really good at camp which is an exciting development, apparently Dylan James looked good too.

I just want this saga to end

This is a big problem for sure, his confidence evaporates at any slight adversity it seems like. I also don't think he has much hockey sense either. Now that he isn't playing against lesser players in juniors it gets exposed big time. He's great at zone entries and then does the stupidest stuff when he gets in there it is baffling sometimes.

Not too shocked that Zadina cleared, you would think that if a team wanted him they would have made Detroit retain on a trade for nothing.

I can't believe I bought a Zadina jersey

Is there a trade in the works I feel like the Wings are adding a ton of players…