Just too much to commit to a guy that could suck for 4 years.
Henrique seems like a player that would make the Wings better. He is versatile and his contract is not bad. $5,825,000 until 2024-2025. I feel like he's better than both Neilsen and Filppula and we'll likely need to replace them next season.
The only way a trade would make sense is if ANA retained salary. Something like:Who said late round pick? Henrique had 26 goals last year. If he finds his game and you retain 50%, that's a nice deal for a team going all in.
No. Nearly 6 million for 4 years for a 30 year old guy that the Ducks of all teams decided to waive, and has 4 points on the season in 16 games makes no sense on a rebuilding team. The Wings aren't going to be playoff bound for at least another couple seasons, he would be another veteran clogging the system. I'd rather be a bottom 3 team, rather than bring in someone like this and maybe finish 4th or 5th worse instead if he happened to help create a bit more offense to win a couple more games this season. At this point, and watching this team the last two seasons, I can deal with another season or two (or more) of bottom tier hockey if it means they draft high and can bring in future talent.
A has been? He was good last year. He scored 26 goals. He's had 16 bad games, on a team that is absolutely struggling to score. Like for reference, Anaheim has fewer goals scored than Detroit does. He has as many points as Zadina, in 4 games more. If Henrique is done at the age of 31 because he's playing this way, we're gonna have to admit some unpleasant things about our own team.The only way a trade would make sense is if ANA retained salary. Something like:
Nielsen (no retention) for Henrique (1/3 retention) would make sense financially
But, I would just rather build through the draft, and I don't see Chris spending money on a "has been".
I don't see any takers at full salary.
He's 31 on the decline, we don't need another Nielsen.A has been? He was good last year. He's had 16 bad games, on a team that is absolutely struggling to score. Like for reference, Anaheim has fewer goals scored than Detroit does. He has as many points as Zadina, in 4 games more. If Henrique is done, we're gonna have to admit some unpleasant things about our own team.
I love Jackson Hole.
The potential reward is that we never have to hear Nielsen's name again?
I'm in.
We have maybe 7 "Average" or better players on this team relative to where they're slotted in the line up.Dont we have enough average on this team?
average is an improvement on this team.
Getting an average player to improve this dumpster fire is still a negative. Him being average in 2 or 3 years at his cap hit when we want to be productive is the problem. Not his caphit this year.
I'd rather wait until 2022 and get Barkov or Forsberg in free agency. Mantha got into a fight with Barkov today, so that's gotta happen now, right?well, we're still going to be bad in 2-3 years anyway. A guy like Henrique helps pull us up a bit, perhaps more importantly he would be a dependable, solid vet for the kids coming up to learn from while the Wings didn't get rag dolled on a semi-consistent basis.
Give Anaheim a 3rd, maybe get them to eat a million or so...and even then he maybe gets taken by Seattle in the expansion draft. I don't know. I'm tired of this team god awful when I don't think there is necessarily going to be the payoff for it to make worth while, so I'm pretty open to doing something to make this team better.
I'd rather wait until 2022 and get Barkov or Forsberg in free agency. Mantha got into a fight with Barkov today, so that's gotta happen now, right?
Chris is cheap, so the team might not max out the cap. If the team is going to spend money, I'd rather have them do it on a legit top line center and not someone like Henrique. $5.8M for Henrique means Chris will spend $5.8M less somewhere else...I'd like to see us go shopping before that, but yeah. For 22/23 the Wings have all of like $14m on the books. They have a few guys to re-sign before then (Bert, Zadina, Hronek) but a whole lot of stuff that we'll probably just let walk and (ideally) replace from within. Even if we added Henrique straight up the reality is that his contract is pretty unlikely to hurt us in pursuing anyone else while his contract is still on the books.
I'm hoping something shakes loose with the expansion draft and maybe Yzerman can grab someone another team doesn't want to lose.
With the draft lotto there is so little difference between 2nd worst and fifth worst that I'm not sure there is the likely benefit there to make up for being that bad of a team for that many years. While I don't really see Henrique as the guy we should start spending on, I don't think it's a bad thing if the wings did pursue more talent that is going to be here for several years. They're going to be in the draft regardless, but I don't see being this bad and this far removed talent wise from every other team in the league is necessarily good for the franchise in the long term.