News Article: Red Wings did make 31M profit with the worst season in their hockey history

[SantosHalper]

I have officially boycotted spending any money on the Wings until they trash Blashill.

I have a feeling that Blash is going to stay for a while. Yzerman is probably waiting for Jon Cooper to be fired from Tampa, and Red Wings are still going to be in rebuild atleast next 2 seasons. No point to fire the tank commander during the tank.

I could see Blashill re-signed for 2 more years, and lot of things can happen in next 3 years. Tampa could have bad a season and JBB decides to spice things up, fires Cooper and promotes his own guy Groulx as a new head coach. And im 110 % sure that right there and then Yzerman fires Blash and signs Cooper with multi-year deal.

Blashill is "Bryan Murray" and Cooper will be Yzerman's "Scotty Bowman".

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

I have a feeling that Blash is going to stay for a while. Yzerman is probably waiting for Jon Cooper to be fired from Tampa, and Red Wings are still going to be in rebuild atleast next 2 seasons. No point to fire the tank commander during the tank.

I could see Blashill re-signed for 2 more years, and lot of things can happen in next 3 years. Tampa could have bad a season and JBB decides to spice things up, fires Cooper and promotes his own guy Groulx as a new head coach. And im 110 % sure that right there and then Yzerman fires Blash and signs Cooper with multi-year deal.

Blashill is "Bryan Murray" and Cooper will be Yzerman's "Scotty Bowman".

I'm hoping you're wrong. I think at most we've got 1 more season of Blashill. I'm not sure who is available next season but I'm hoping that there will be some wonderkid that walks in and reshapes the team into a winner with Yzerman.

 

[19 for president]

Yeah I don't see more than 1 more season for Blash unless the Wings have a miraculous season. I think this will likely be the last full tank season, so going into next year they are going to expect to be a better that is at least near the bubble.

I mean you are looking at:

Bert-Larkin- Zadina
Raymond-Namestikov -Mantha
Fabbri-Rasmussen-Svech
Smith- Veleno- TBD

DD- Hronek
Seider- TBD
Strecher- TBD

That is a team that should be on the rise depending on the draft and who they can land in free agency.

 

[Gniwder]

Yeah I don't see more than 1 more season for Blash unless the Wings have a miraculous season. I think this will likely be the last full tank season, so going into next year they are going to expect to be a better that is at least near the bubble.

I mean you are looking at:

Bert-Larkin- Zadina
Raymond-Namestikov -Mantha
Fabbri-Rasmussen-Svech
Smith- Veleno- TBD

DD- Hronek
Seider- TBD
Strecher- TBD

That is a team that should be on the rise depending on the draft and who they can land in free agency.

From a roster standpoint, this should be the last tank season since the team will have a ridiculous amount of salary cap space and only 1 bad contract left on the books, Nielsen for 1 more season.

From a business standpoint, I think it still depends on COVID. Chris starts spending big when arena attendance is allowed again.

 

[Run the Jewels]

How much did they make when they were one of the worst teams in the league and were capped out?

 

[Gniwder]

How much did they make when they were one of the worst teams in the league and were capped out?

I would have guessed about the same because while they might have paid more salary, they also would have more income in a complete season. And it turns out I was right:

• Detroit Red Wings operating income 2006-2019 | Statista

You can see that operating income increased substantially with LCA, they can afford to spend to the cap when arena attendance is allowed again.

 

[Ghost of Ethan Hunt]

From a roster standpoint, this should be the last tank season since the team will have a ridiculous amount of salary cap space and only 1 bad contract left on the books, Nielsen for 1 more season.

From a business standpoint, I think it still depends on COVID. Chris starts spending big when arena attendance is allowed again.

Just did some quick math on CapF, we'll have (guessing) b/w $15-25M after all our roster spots are filled in '21-'22. ~$25 if most are ELC and/or ~$1M...~$15 if we dip into a few UFA's (replace Nemeth, Bernier etc. which should still be cheap.) & sign an impact Top6F/Top4D.

$15M minimum to take on the Killorn's/Palat's & other casualties, & Get Paid To Do So....Muahahahahaha.

Somewhere Dr. Evil is praising Yzerman. (can someone photoshop Yzerman's face on Dr.Evil while he's petting his cat hairless Mr.Bigglesworth)

Bonus:
Kenny in EDM, right after he trades for AA