Confirmed Signing with Link: [DET] F JT Compher signs with the Red Wings (5 years, $5.1M AAV)

[Uncle Scrooge]

Funny how Yzerman signs both Copp and Compher to their big paydays.

That said, cap space isn't a problem right now.

 

[ScottyK]

Yzerman sucks

 

[CupInSIX]

Where's that Red Wings fan who was saying "who cares if they gave 3.4M to Holl they have tons of cap space the next 3 years"

 

[VanillaCoke]

Yikesss

 

[Kurtosis]

This doesn’t seem too optimal.

 

[Love]

Andrew Copp didn’t work, so let’s try again!

 

[Haguerbomb]

Holy sh*t!

 

[McHelpus]

Yzerman and Lou are battling for who can be fired before the season starts.

 

[BKarchitect]

On one of the best teams in the league the last three years:

He’s positionally versatile (but sub-50% on face offs), he works hard, skates hard, is good defensively and will play on the PK and just good enough in the offensive zone to get way too much ice time and PP time and if he plays huge minutes he will score just enough to make people not watching think he’s maybe a top six solution. But he’s really not - he’s a fine third liner who doesn’t move the needle all that much in any metric and now has a $25 million contract.

I do wonder about the DRW analytics department and their continued signing of guys to big commitment contracts who play a lot of minutes but whose underlying numbers are not great.

 

[NYR94]

Yzerman was busy today! Maybe he got the "you need to speed up this rebuild" talk from ownership.

 

[Love]

Yzerman has exposed himself as a fraud.

 

[Petes2424]

That’s a lot of term for that team. Yea, he can move around the lineup but maybe they have something else going on. Are they moving Rasmussen in a deal? For Scheifele maybe? Then it makes much more sense.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

A lot of coin for a center who has never scored 20 goals and hasn’t broken 35 points in any season except the last one.

He got a better contract than Dylan Strome. Wild.

 

[letsgowings9999]

I can only imagine what danielson and kasper are thinking lmfao were gonna move one or both 2 the wing for the awesome duo of compher copp down the middle

If anyone thinks were making the playoffs anytime soon think again

I'd jump off the bridge if I were larkin

 

[Russian_fanatic]

Not sure if Steve Yzerman or Jim Benning...

These contracts he has given out lately have been... Yikes...

 

[Philadelphia Collins]

Yzerman did a hell of a job in Tampa but his moves in Detroit have me puzzled. This, Copp and Chiarots contracts are all pretty bad. How long is their rebuild supposed to take?

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Yzerman has exposed himself as a fraud.

A lot easier to GM when you have a top notch scouting and drafting team behind you like Tampa did.

 

[Love]

A lot easier to GM when you have a top notch scouting and drafting team behind you like Tampa did.

You don’t need a scouting team to know not to make this deal

 

[Shane Diesel]

Hard to be a genius GM when the luck runs out.

That's horrendous.

 

[5 14 6 1]

The sheen on Stevie Y is fading

 

[Ezekial]

I can only imagine what danielson and kasper are thinking lmfao were gonna move one or both 2 the wing for the awesome duo of compher copp down the middle

If anyone thinks were making the playoffs anytime soon think again

I'd jump off the bridge if I were larkin

This is kind of a dumb take seeing as Copp and Compher swing out to the wing quite a bit already as is.

It's a redundant and stupid move, but shouldn't affect them being centers.


Edit: I'm sure Larkin has already contacted him with congratulations and doesn't want to kill himself, they were teammates at Michigan.

 

[Sensinitis]

LOOOOL

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

You don’t need a scouting team to know not to make this deal

He wouldn't have had to if they were doing a better job of producing nhlers. Think he's getting desperate. I'm saying Tampa made him look better than he was.

 

[Just A Bit Outside]

Awful

 

[Go Wings]

JT Compher is a hell of a player middle 6 center 5 million for him is good. Il

No he isn't. That's why Colorado went out and replaced him.