Confirmed with Link: Darren Helm re-signed 5 years 3.85m/year

[ArGarBarGar]

Really? Great. The Wings should hire who and than miss the playoffs just like the Bruins... While I don't like all of Hollands moves he is still one of the best. Plenty of time left to see what he does if he does anything else today.

What has Holland done in the last 5 years to indicate he is still one of the best?

 

[Syckle78]

Exactly, if some team was nuts enough to pay more, gack.

It wasn't a discount that's complete bs. If helm wanted to be here at a discount he would of signed awhile ago.

 

[HockeyinHD]

I am very confused right about now. I don't understand the rationale behind this contract.

The only thing I can think of is that they wanted Helm and Miller back to shore up and stabilize the bottom 6 because of the changes they are making in the top half of the forwards with Radulov and/or Nielsen (allegedly).

They have to be thinking Sheahan-Glendening-Helm on the third line with AA and Miller on the 4th along with whomever wins that roster battle. Then a top 6 of Z, Larkin, Abdelkader, Tatar, Nyquist, and then 1 UFA. If it's 2 UFAs then a bunch of forwards get knocked down one spot with Glendening on the 4th line with Miller and AA.

I honestly can't come up with another sequence of decisions.

 

[Frk It]

What has Holland done in the last 5 years to indicate he is still one of the best?

What has Holland done in the last 5 years to indicate he should be our GM?

 

[TheMule93]

 

[Zetterberg4Captain]

Really? Great. The Wings should hire who and than miss the playoffs just like the Bruins... While I don't like all of Hollands moves he is still one of the best. Plenty of time left to see what he does if he does anything else today.

The bruins are just as good/bad as us

We.dont get to.look down our noses at them, we dont have that right..

 

[Shaman464]

What has Holland done in the last 5 years to indicate he is still one of the best?

Signed Helm, Cleary, and Abdelkader? #intangibles.

 

[steafo]

Forget the amount of money...it's once again WAY too much term. 3 years should be the max contract we're handing out for anyone that will not be part of the core or help the team moving forward. Oh wait...Helm IS the core.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

What has Holland done in the last 5 years to indicate he should be our GM?

Well he tells it like it is.

"I think if you expect Cups, you're in the wrong league."

At least we won't have any silly hopes of doing anything substantial for the next decade or so.

 

[Heaton]

Well he tells it like it is.

"I think if you expect Cups, you're in the wrong league."

At least we won't have any silly hopes of doing anything substantial for the next decade or so.

"It's more fun to expect less".

 

[jkutswings]

And so it begins...

Somebody please take the keys away from Grandpa Kenny. He's already run over a few curbs and hit a mailbox, and now he's accelerating towards a pedestrian zone.

 

[Lil Sebastian Cossa]

**** like this is why Stamkos didn't take our presentation, Kenny. I really like Helm as a player. He does a lot of things that don't necessarily fill in a score sheet.

But almost 4M for him, regardless of term, is too much. If the cap continued to rise like the NBA and NFL caps are? Sure. 4M would be a fine amount. With a 120M cap, this would be a drop in the bucket. Hell, if it were even a 100M cap, it would be 4% of the cap. But we are hovering around 69-74M and probably will be for the foreseeable future.

You have over 10% of your cap locked into Abby and Helm. That is ridiculous.

 

[izlez]

I really like Helm more than most and think he plays a winning brand of hockey, the type of player than can be essential to any cup winning team...

I agree with all the things Holland is going to say about him.

But come on, you can't give every single player like this a deal like this. Holland really is becoming the charicature all the haters portray him as

 

[CKJohn]

Jesus this is terrible. Same old Holland.

There went any faith I had that we may actually be going in a different direction.

This management has gone to hell since Scotty stopped advising and went to Chicago with Stan. Gee imagine that, Scotty goes there, they get good and we decline. Holland is an idiot. He rides the wave that Scotty left and it's fizzling out.

 

[Syckle78]

Was worried that he might get a nmc and we would have to protect him. But then I remember we don't have enough quality assets to worry about losing. Silver linings!

 

[Reddwit]

Lol ****, Nielsen is worth 8-9 if Helm is worth 4.

Maybe 7-8M. Nielsen doesn't have that Red Wing's Country Club membership that seems to be worth about a mil.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

"It's more fun to expect less".

 

[Reddwit]

Jesus this is terrible. Same old Holland.

There went any faith I had that we may actually be going in a different direction.

This management has gone to hell since Scotty stopped advising and went to Chicago with Stan. Gee imagine that, Scotty goes there, they get good and we decline. Holland is an idiot. He rides the wave that Scotty left and it's fizzling out.

Mine too. Learned my lesson.

Also lost the only strongarm we had in Nill, apparently. The guy had no problems shipping off Goligoski and telling Demers and Russell to hit the bricks.

 

[Ezekial]

Getting things started out right.

This is such ********.

 

[Syckle78]

I really like Helm more than most and think he plays a winning brand of hockey, the type of player than can be essential to any cup winning team...

I agree with all the things Holland is going to say about him.

But come on, you can't give every single player like this a deal like this. Holland really is becoming the charicature all the haters portray him as

Perhaps he's not becoming a caricature and the 'haters' might of known what they were talking about all along? Nah,couldn't possibly be that...

 

[mindfly]

Let's just wait until he re-signs quincey, bring back hudler and sign some useless old plug like Nielsen to a long-term deal

 

[Cyborg Yzerberg]

This is why I didn't want to trade Datsyuk's contract (bar us signing Stamkos, of course)

 

[izlez]

but also, just to get ahead of things....

there are going to be 50 signings today. 45 of them are going to be regarded as "massive over-payments" by everyone on here, just like every year. Perhaps everyone just needs to adjust their expectations and get back to reality and see what the market is

 

[Run the Jewels]

Just wait until word gets out that Holland is outbidding NYI on the 6-7yr deal they're offering Nielsen...

More like signing Shane Doan to a multi year deal after the Yotes couldn't get a one year deal done. Holland loves him some over the hill power forwards.

THIS IS A MENS LEAGUE.

 

[wings95]

What has Holland done in the last 5 years to indicate he is still one of the best?

It is my opinion when you make the playoffs anything can happen. He does his job and I like that. Do I agree with everything he does, no but I am not his boss!