Month: July 2024

Per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman:

Erik Gustafsson 2 x $2M Detroit

— Elliotte Friedman (@FriedgeHNIC) July 1, 2024

Erik Gustafsson has signed a two-year deal with Detroit 🪽 pic.twitter.com/95mXCUSzFS

— B/R Open Ice (@BR_OpenIce) July 1, 2024

32 years old, 6,’ 198 pounds.

Erik Gustafsson signs with #LGRW

He has some offensive upside in the event of injury but has been able to thrive even when playing more of a depth role. He could be a factor in deeper leagues.https://t.co/wuM9nhNzkU pic.twitter.com/okOS9gqUfs

— Frozen Tools (@FrozenTools) July 1, 2024

Another LD. Gustavsson is a 32 year old who had 31 points in 76 games last season and looks to be the Ghost replacement. Pretty big upgrade on the defensive side of the puck.#LGRW https://t.co/G1HM0PzTDH pic.twitter.com/uEJFJwRWvf

— The Grind Line Podcast™ (@GrindLinePod) July 1, 2024

The left-shot D who looks to be Gostisbehere's replacement. He's 32. 76 games with NYR, 6-25–31. Gives #RedWings 8 D (Seider, Chiarot, Edvinsson, Petry, Maatta, Holl and Johansson), for now. https://t.co/M309Z9FKcA

— Ansar Khan (@AnsarKhanMLive) July 1, 2024

#RedWings are Erik Gustafsson's eighth team since 2019-20. https://t.co/7drJEuDcMW

— Ansar Khan (@AnsarKhanMLive) July 1, 2024

Erik Gustafsson is reportedly heading to Detroit on a two-year deal! #LGRW | #NHLFreeAgency pic.twitter.com/zYdn2OKDn7

— NHL Network (@NHLNetwork) July 1, 2024

Erik Gustafsson, signed 2x$2M by DET, is a two-way puck-moving defenceman who's especially useful in the offensive zone. Has come into his own in the past two seasons as a very strong option to win minutes with a third pairing. #LGRW pic.twitter.com/h6UxNOTRP1

— JFresh (@JFreshHockey) July 1, 2024

I’ll try to consolidate the “Griffins guys go elsewhere” round-up post into this one:

Congratulations to Zach Aston-Reese on signing a 1-year contract (two way $475/$775k)with the Vegas #VegasBorn Golden Knights! #WeAreGoldStar! pic.twitter.com/gkmpf6nGKH

— Dan Milstein (@HockeyAgent1) July 1, 2024

Per Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli:

Sources say #LGRW have agreed to terms with defenseman William Lagesson: 1 year , $775,000.@DailyFaceoff

— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) July 1, 2024

The @DetroitRedWings are reportedly adding Cam Talbot to the mix. #LGRW | #NHLFreeAgency pic.twitter.com/jlJFmJg20k

— NHL Network (@NHLNetwork) July 1, 2024

It’s official:

UPDATE: The #RedWings today signed defenseman William Lagesson to a one-year contract with an AAV of $775K. pic.twitter.com/ULnGXFKIHD

— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) July 1, 2024

Defenseman William Lagesson has signed a one-year deal with the @DetroitRedWings. ✍️#LGRW pic.twitter.com/8ei2uF9Ab2

— Bally Sports Detroit (@BallySportsDET) July 1, 2024

Per TSN’s Darren Dreger:

Talbot to Detroit.
$2,500,000 per year for two years.

— Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) July 1, 2024

The Red Wings are signing goaltender Cam Talbot to a two-year deal worth $2.5 million annually, @DarrenDreger reports. pic.twitter.com/E18HYdTQRI

— Brad Galli (@BradGalli) July 1, 2024

It’s official:

UPDATE: The #RedWings today signed goaltender Cam Talbot to a two-year contract with an AAV of $2.5M. pic.twitter.com/qsLSb8HpoA

— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) July 1, 2024

The @DetroitRedWings have signed goaltender Cam Talbot to a two-year contract. ✍️#LGRW pic.twitter.com/3magescHln

— Bally Sports Detroit (@BallySportsDET) July 1, 2024

Per 97.1 the Ticket:

Detroit has agreed to a two-year, $5 million deal with Cam Talbot, per Elliotte Friedman, adding the veteran goaltender to compete with Alex Lyon and Ville Husso next season.

Talbot had a .913 save percentage and a 2.50 goals against average in 54 games as the Kings’ starter last season when he went to the All-Star Game for the second time in the past three years, numbers in line with the rest of his career. He turns 37 in July.

The Red Wings had a team save percentage of .897 and allowed 3.3 goals per game last season. Lyon became the starter as the year went on, with Husso hindered by injuries and James Reimer playing the role of backup. Both Lyon and Husso are under contract through next season, while Reimer is gone.

Talbot gives the Wings a proven NHL goalie through the 2025-26 season, by which time prospect Sebastian Cossa should be ready to step into the crease in Detroit.

Wowzers:

David Perron is closing on a two year deal with #Sens

— Bruce Garrioch (@SunGarrioch) July 1, 2024

$4 million AAV. https://t.co/sFSzrrkm2T

— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) July 1, 2024

Sources say #sens have agreed to terms with David Perron: 2 years x $4 million.@DailyFaceoff

— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) July 1, 2024

David Perron, signed 2x$4M by OTT, is a veteran forechecking winger. 5v5 offence fell a bit off a cliff last season and he's one of the slowest players in the NHL but still active in his own end and chips in some physicality. #GoSensGo pic.twitter.com/TZqY8ntsyH

— JFresh (@JFreshHockey) July 1, 2024

The Detroit Red Wings’ home opener for the 2024-2025 season will be a good one, per the NHL:

Detroit Red Wings – Oct. 10 vs. Pittsburgh

October 10.
Little Caesars Arena.

Stay tuned for the rest of the schedule releasing soon! To get priority on season memberships, single-game tickets and more, join our waitlist today!

💻 » https://t.co/NWbCsyg74N pic.twitter.com/oSSRPsKzwF

— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) July 1, 2024

NHL announced home-openers and #RedWings will host Pittsburgh on Oct. 10. That appears to be the season-opener as well since Wings are not listed as anyone else's home-opener and season opens on Oct. 8. Schedule release is tomorrow.

— Ansar Khan (@AnsarKhanMLive) July 1, 2024

Perron was wonderful, but he slowed considerably during his tenure with Detroit:

Veteran forward David Perron is going to market after not being able to get a deal done with DET. OTT will be amongst the teams with significant interest in him.

— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) July 1, 2024

We'll miss Gostisbehere and Perron, presuming that they don't circle back, but both players were as much defensive liabilities and tended to take obstruction penalties.

Perron was a wonderful leader while he was here in Detroit. But he got slow.

— George Malik (@georgemalik) July 1, 2024

The Red Wings’ free agent list was released by the NHL today:

DETROIT: Zach Aston-Reese, Austin Czarnik, Christian Fischer, Shayne Gostisbehere, Taro Hirose, Michael Hutchinson, John Lethemon, Matt Luff, David Perron, James Reimer, Radim Simek, Daniel Sprong.

And the restricted free agents are…

DETROIT: Jonatan Berggren, Lucas Raymond, Moritz Seider, Joe Veleno.

FYI:

Here are the updated compensation thresholds for players receiving an offer sheet. The RFA's are fair game now, too. pic.twitter.com/VDhLgLCwk5

— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) July 1, 2024

Ah well:

There were talks all week with Detroit but sounds like Shayne Gostisbehere will head to market today

— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) July 1, 2024

Gostisbehere posted a ton of points for the Red Wings on the power play, but he was an…adventure…in his own zone at even strength.

I'm not certain how I feel about this one.

— George Malik (@georgemalik) July 1, 2024

Per Red Wings announcer Ken Kal:

Day 1 of development camp @LCA. Justin Solovey, a free agent invitee going through one of the drills. pic.twitter.com/KpxwSC73SW

— Ken Kal (@KenKalDRW) July 1, 2024

Red Wings 1st round draft pick this year. Michael Brandsegg-Nygard ladies and gentlemen. pic.twitter.com/QmbBInIvMV

— Ken Kal (@KenKalDRW) July 1, 2024