The Athletic’s Max Bultman wrote an article this morning which discusses the impacts of the Red Wings’ free agents upon the Wings’ organization from the prospects developing elsewhere to the Wings’ current depth chart:
Whenever the Red Wings finally get together for a formal 2020-21 training camp, an orientation might be in order. Because after a busy first weekend of free agency, in which five free agents signed with Detroit, the Red Wings’ locker room is going to be full of new faces.
More importantly, all five of those players project as meaningful upgrades for the NHL’s last-place team last season. Not to a degree that will drastically alter Detroit’s trajectory, but after a season that featured more than its fair share of miserable losses, the Red Wings got better this offseason. At least on paper.
Now the question is: How do all these new pieces fit together? Detroit still has some major RFA business to accomplish, namely signing top-line forwards Anthony Mantha and Tyler Bertuzzi, but once it comes to terms with those two and Dmytro Timashov, the picture at both forward and defense will be pretty crowded.
So, with the caveat that the offseason is not yet over, here’s an updated projection of the Red Wings’ organizational depth chart.
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