MLive’s Ansar Khan posted a subscriber-only article this morning which discusses the Red Wings’ need to ‘make a splash’ in free agency to improve the team:
Steve Yzerman has been conservative in free agency during his first three years as general manager for a Detroit Red Wings team deep in a rebuild.
Is this the year he makes a bigger splash when the market opens Wednesday at noon?
The Red Wings have ample cap space and several needs, and Yzerman would like to add some talent if the price and term are right.
“We want help for Dylan (Larkin), Tyler (Bertuzzi), Filip Hronek,” Yzerman said last week. “They’ve been around for a few years, Dylan and Tyler particularly. We want to surround them with some better players. We watched the positive impact some of our younger guys had this year. We’d like to add to that and continue to move forward. If there’s a player that can make what we feel would be a significant impact, we’re not afraid to do that in free agency.”
The Red Wings have $31 million in cap space, according to CapFriendly.com, though a portion of that is reserved to re-sign some of their own free agents and for new deals for Larkin and Bertuzzi, who are entering the final years of their contracts.
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