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Wings are set in goal with Howard on a new deal.
In addition, there are 6 defensemen under contract for next year with two others, Kindl and Smith, as RFA who will likely be signed. D squad is Kronwall, Ericsson, Smith, Kindl, Quincey, DeKeyser, Colaiacovo and Lashoff. White is a FA and almost certainly will not be resigned. It would be ideal if the Wings could off load one of Colaiacovo or Quincey but that seems unlikely so the Wings will likely come in with 8 on the roster. Both players deals expire after next season both seem unlikely to be resigned.
The Wings only real moves could come at forward, likely for wingers.
The good: Abdelkader is under contract at 1.8 a year for another three seasons, Zetterberg and Frazen are locked up basically forever, Helm is at 2 mil for another three seasons.
The bad: Samuelsson is still under contract for 3 mil (what were they thinking?), Bertuzzi is still under contract at 2 mil, Tootoo has two more years left at 1.9 mil
Filppula, Cleary, Brunner, and Miller are all free agents
Andersson and Nyquist are both RFA likely to get raises
Ideally if there were any way to ditch Samuelsson or Tootoo the Wings should do it, but I doubt that is possible.
Wings will probably want to resign Brunner, who knows how much he will command though, could definitely be a raise over the 1.3 he made. Miller, Cleary and Filppula could all be goners. Filppula probably depends a lot on the salary someone is willing to offer him, he has consistently under performed his talent level so if somebody will give him a big deal at 4 mil or more he's probably gone. Cleary was horrible this season until the last round of the playoffs and even then he survived on effort and not ability, I think he's gone unless he can be had really cheap. Miller too is probably gone if only because he's blocking others and they can't ditch Sammy or Tootoo.
Wings need snipers and preferably, BIG wingers. This team is too small except Franzen and Franzen plays small too often.
Wings are probably going to have 13-14 mil in cap space without taking into account any UFA.
Big name older guys are there like Iginla, Elias, Alfredsson and the Wings are probably not options for any of them.
Intriguing options for the right price:
Dustin Penner
Nathan Horton
Brenden Morrow
Bryan Bickell
Ryan Clowe
among others. Obviously this group is not ideal, but it at least affords the opportunity for this team to add some grit, size, toughness and a willingness to bang around the goal. My concern is that all of these options might wind up substantially overpaid.
In addition, there are 6 defensemen under contract for next year with two others, Kindl and Smith, as RFA who will likely be signed. D squad is Kronwall, Ericsson, Smith, Kindl, Quincey, DeKeyser, Colaiacovo and Lashoff. White is a FA and almost certainly will not be resigned. It would be ideal if the Wings could off load one of Colaiacovo or Quincey but that seems unlikely so the Wings will likely come in with 8 on the roster. Both players deals expire after next season both seem unlikely to be resigned.
The Wings only real moves could come at forward, likely for wingers.
The good: Abdelkader is under contract at 1.8 a year for another three seasons, Zetterberg and Frazen are locked up basically forever, Helm is at 2 mil for another three seasons.
The bad: Samuelsson is still under contract for 3 mil (what were they thinking?), Bertuzzi is still under contract at 2 mil, Tootoo has two more years left at 1.9 mil
Filppula, Cleary, Brunner, and Miller are all free agents
Andersson and Nyquist are both RFA likely to get raises
Ideally if there were any way to ditch Samuelsson or Tootoo the Wings should do it, but I doubt that is possible.
Wings will probably want to resign Brunner, who knows how much he will command though, could definitely be a raise over the 1.3 he made. Miller, Cleary and Filppula could all be goners. Filppula probably depends a lot on the salary someone is willing to offer him, he has consistently under performed his talent level so if somebody will give him a big deal at 4 mil or more he's probably gone. Cleary was horrible this season until the last round of the playoffs and even then he survived on effort and not ability, I think he's gone unless he can be had really cheap. Miller too is probably gone if only because he's blocking others and they can't ditch Sammy or Tootoo.
Wings need snipers and preferably, BIG wingers. This team is too small except Franzen and Franzen plays small too often.
Wings are probably going to have 13-14 mil in cap space without taking into account any UFA.
Big name older guys are there like Iginla, Elias, Alfredsson and the Wings are probably not options for any of them.
Intriguing options for the right price:
Dustin Penner
Nathan Horton
Brenden Morrow
Bryan Bickell
Ryan Clowe
among others. Obviously this group is not ideal, but it at least affords the opportunity for this team to add some grit, size, toughness and a willingness to bang around the goal. My concern is that all of these options might wind up substantially overpaid.
