Confirmed with Link: Red Wings sign F Daniel Sprong (1 yr, 2M)

[cvaicunas]

But…is his Goals per 60 as generational as AA’s in 2018???

OOOO I knew this was coming

 

[Killerjas]

It's often amazing to see how Dutch seems to be the link between German and English (which may very well be true linguistically anyway). Let's hope your compatriot will bring as much fun to the Red Wings as mine does!

Gruß,
BSHH

Danke Sehr, hope HSV finally gets the promotion this year to the Bundesliga

 

[jaster]

I’m down with this signing, risk/reward quotient seems right. Hopefully he can continue scoring goals.

 

[Unfriendly Ghost]

If they're really going to run Kostin/Veleno/Sprong, that line could take advantage of a lot of third pairings.

 

[Leadzedder]

I hope he gets a new #.

 

[dragonballgtz]

Tired of these types of signings. His 20G season was an anomaly not the norm. He's a duplicate of Fabbri... a supposed 20G player who is often injured.

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Washington fan here. Liked Sprong a lot when he was a Cap. He has a wicked release on his shot and he’s faster than you’d expect. His defensive game isn’t as bad as it’s made out to be but it’s certainly not great either.

He has wheels and he can score at even strength. He must be an ass in the locker room or he freewheels too much because he seems to me to be too good an offensive threat to be on his fifth team at just 26. I gladly would have taken him back at the contract he just signed.

 

[Henkka]

Same "offence" but one can finish and one can't.

 

[Henkka]

Also interesting that Sprong comes from Seattle and Yamamoto went to Seattle.

Some comparison for next year...

 

[lomekian]

Tired of these types of signings. His 20G season was an anomaly not the norm. He's a duplicate of Fabbri... a supposed 20G player who is often injured.

As a 1 year deal taking up a very small chunk of our major cap space, surely its worth taking a punt on?

 

[Henkka]

Points per game last season

Larkin 0.98
Sprong 0.70
Perron 0.68
Compher 0.63
Raymond 0.61
Fabbri 0.57
Kubalik 0.56
Rasmussen 0.52
Copp 0.51
Berggren 0.42
Söderblom 0.38
Kostin 0.37

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

Nice low risk signing. If he can produce even as much as Kubalik last year, I'll be satisfied.

 

[Gniwder]

Tired of these types of signings. His 20G season was an anomaly not the norm. He's a duplicate of Fabbri... a supposed 20G player who is often injured.

Nice stat watching, he was healthy scratched because of his defensive play, not injured. Oddly, his defensive play has improved significantly since his ANA days, but he seems to get a lot of flack for it anyways.

He's definitely streaky though, 12 of 21 goals came between Thanksgiving and New Years. It all depends on how well he clicks with his center, I assume it's going to be Joey.

Fabbri is done though, I don't expect his knees to hold up at this point. Unfortunate, because I like his game aside from his puck decisions in the defensive zone. His errant passes definitely make me cringe.

 

[Henkka]

Nice stat watching, he was healthy scratched because of his defensive play, not injured. Oddly, his defensive play has improved significantly since his ANA days, but he seems to get a lot of flack for it anyways.

He's definitely streaky though, 12 of 21 goals came between Thanksgiving and New Years. It all depends on how well he clicks with his center, I assume it's going to be Joey.

Fabbri is done though, I don't expect his knees to hold up at this point. Unfortunate, because I like his game aside from his puck decisions in the defensive zone. His errant passes definitely make me cringe.

Raymond will probably get Fabbri on his wing to feed. And Copp as a center.

 

[Gniwder]

Raymond will probably get Fabbri on his wing to feed. And Copp as a center.

I'm really thinking Copp winds up being first line winger, and Compher as 2C.

I'd really rather see Fabbri as a center than Copp, so that may be my bias. But I can see Fabbri and Ray on the same line, I think it'll work.

 

[datsyukfan]

I'm really thinking Copp winds up being first line winger, and Compher as 2C.

I'd really rather see Fabbri as a center than Copp, so that may be my bias. But I can see Fabbri and Ray on the same line, I think it'll work.

Fabbri should not be playing Center at all

 

[Bench]

Sprong has quite a bit of untapped potential yet. Don't sleep on him. Instead, point him to Lafayette Coney Island so the inner hot dog beast can be awakened in Detroit.

 

[lhsgolf19]

I guess no Kane ha, looks like he is going to wear 88

 

[TheOctopusKid]

I guess no Kane ha, looks like he is going to wear 88

We don’t want Oane. Hip resurfacing surgery is a career ender. No one has come back from it yet. It’s like the ruptured Achilles tendon in basketball.

 

[lhsgolf19]

We don’t want Oane. Hip resurfacing surgery is a career ender. No one has come back from it yet. It’s like the ruptured Achilles tendon in basketball.

No I don’t want him, i know some people do… just letting people know

 

[TheOctopusKid]

No I don’t want him, i know some people do… just letting people know

Spread the gospel. We don’t be needing a 36 year old Patrick Kane trying to literally push off a hip joint that has been popped out and smoothed over with a belt sander. Apparently, it adversely affects mobility

 

[RRhoads]

I think we already have too many forwards. Should get rid of one or two to give space for Kasper.

 

[Gniwder]

Spread the gospel. We don’t be needing a 36 year old Patrick Kane trying to literally push off a hip joint that has been popped out and smoothed over with a belt sander. Apparently, it adversely affects mobility

Hip resurfacing is really just hip replacement where take less of the top of the femur.

Hip Resurfacing - OrthoInfo - AAOS

Unlike traditional total hip replacement, in hip resurfacing, the femoral head is not removed. It is instead trimmed and capped with a smooth metal covering. The damaged hip socket is replaced with a metal shell, just as in a traditional total hip replacement.

orthoinfo.aaos.org

So yeah, probably not gonna go well.

 

[ColdToiletSeats]

No I don’t want him, i know some people do… just letting people know

we need Kane otherwise DeBrincat can't score 40 goals (according to 90% of the people in this forum before we got DeBrincat)

 

[Henkka]

I think we already have too many forwards. Should get rid of one or two to give space for Kasper.

He has to play better than any of Top12 to push one guy out.

we need Kane otherwise DeBrincat can't score 40 goals (according to 90% of the people in this forum before we got DeBrincat)

I would be fine with 34 goals, and assisting 32 for Larkin.