Équipe: 2023-24 Red Wings de Detroit

Date de création initiale: 20 juin 2023

Publié: 20 juin 2023

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Today Yzerman stressed these specific things in his presser.

Core will be 27 or under and they won't trade any draft picks for players older then that

Player has to have term on their contract

He will not trade #9

Only way he trades 17 or any of the 2nds is if player fits in core 18-27 and has term on contract that makes sense for the red wings

He won't be trading picks and prospects to improve for a playoff spot in the short term

He wants to build through the draft and short term fixes aren't going to happen

He rather fill gaps in free agency then through a trade so he can have the best of both worlds

Players develop at different time lines and he's not worried about making the playoffs or not, he just wants to improve and have his core and young players improve internally

He isn't opposed to moving up or moving back in draft depending what's out there.

This eliminates a lot of what people are posting on here, take it as you will, but this has been the same message for 6 years and hasn't changed today


Side note - this is why so many of us wings fans say no to every proposal on this site, it doesn't match up with what Steve says and does