Steve Yzerman presser 6-20-23

Created by: buffbry9108

Team: 2023-24 Detroit Red Wings

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 20, 2023

Published: Jun. 20, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

Description

Today Yzerman stressed these specific things in his presser.

Core will be 27 or under and they won't trade any draft picks for players older then that

Player has to have term on their contract

He will not trade #9

Only way he trades 17 or any of the 2nds is if player fits in core 18-27 and has term on contract that makes sense for the red wings

He won't be trading picks and prospects to improve for a playoff spot in the short term

He wants to build through the draft and short term fixes aren't going to happen

He rather fill gaps in free agency then through a trade so he can have the best of both worlds

Players develop at different time lines and he's not worried about making the playoffs or not, he just wants to improve and have his core and young players improve internally

He isn't opposed to moving up or moving back in draft depending what's out there.

This eliminates a lot of what people are posting on here, take it as you will, but this has been the same message for 6 years and hasn't changed today

Side note - this is why so many of us wings fans say no to every proposal on this site, it doesn't match up with what Steve says and does

Buyouts

Justin Abdelkader: $1,055,556

Retained Salary Transactions

Jakub Vrána: $2,625,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
15	$83,500,000	$52,109,722	$0	$3,350,000	$31,390,278

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Fabbri, Robby $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW UFA - 2	Larkin, Dylan $8,700,000$8,700,000 C NTC UFA - 8	Perron, David $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Kubalik, Dominik $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Copp, Andrew $5,625,000$5,625,000 C, LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 4	Zadina, Filip $1,100,000$1,100,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
	Kasper, Marco $918,333$918,333 C RFA - 4	Berggren, Jonatan $925,000$925,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
	Czarnik, Austin $762,500$762,500 C, RW UFA - 1	Raymond, Lucas $925,000$925,000 ($2,500,000$2M) RW, LW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Chiarot, Ben $4,750,000$4,750,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Seider, Moritz $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 1	Husso, Ville $4,750,000$4,750,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Walman, Jake $3,400,000$3,400,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3
Määttä, Olli $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Rasmussen, Michael $1,460,000$1,460,000 LW, C UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jun. 20, 2023 at 12:23 p.m.

WPGSK

Joined: Jun. 2023

Posts: 576

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One of the best GM's ever. It's too bad WPG couldn't make Yzerman President of Hockey Ops on a part-time basis so he could just tell Chevy which trades to make and which not to make. Maybe pay Steve a few Million to just advise the Jets.

ARgh....

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Jun. 20, 2023 at 12:25 p.m.

Lancebmx

Joined: Oct. 2020

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Pretty much what I've been saying to people lol.
Thanks for summarizing it so I don't have to go watch it.

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Jun. 20, 2023 at 12:27 p.m.

buffbry9108

RetireFedorov

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Quoting: Lancebmx

Pretty much what I've been saying to people lol.
Thanks for summarizing it so I don't have to go watch it.

Some really good stuff about Russian players, Dan Watson hiring, Cossa progression, going to Sweden this year, drafting BPA as well

Jun. 20, 2023 at 12:34 p.m.

JoeROFLCOPTER

Joe

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"Only way he trades 17 or any of the 2nds is if player fits in core 18-27 and has term on contract that makes sense for the red wings"

Wish every single person who mocks trades to Detroit reads this.

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Jun. 20, 2023 at 12:35 p.m.

buffbry9108

RetireFedorov

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Quoting: JoeROFLCOPTER

This is why I put it here, to hopefully enlighten some of the people who think we are off base with denying most trades

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