The Athletic’s “Down Goes Brown,” a.k.a. Sean McIndoe, offers “bizarro meter” takes on the offseason happenings for Eastern Conference teams this morning, and here’s what he has to say about the Red Wings:
The offseason so far: They signed a whole lot of guys. Some of them are good, some of them not so much, and none of them are superstars. But GM Steve Yzerman brought in enough help that Dom’s model thinks they improved more than any other team. That should give new head coach Derek Lalonde more to work with than Jeff Blashill had.
But their strangest story was: Signing David Perron to an NHL contract. Wait, only the Blues are allowed to do that!
Bizarro-meter ranking: 3.5/10. Busy? Absolutely. Newsworthy? Sure. But given how long the rebuild has been going, the only bizarre thing about Yzerman’s offseason was that he waited this long.
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