Gotta Make Moves To Fix Yzermans Mess

Flames definitely won’t be doing that

That deal would cost the Flames over $20mil over 2 seasons

I'm not sure what's going on in Detroit?

Is Yzerman just waiting for his prospects to develop and become NHL players?

Is he signing more UFA's as place holders?

I was expecting more impactful trades when Steve came back in 2019.

He's made a few.

Hit on Seider.

Hit on Raymond despite being screwed by Bettman.

I'm not going to say he's done a bad job as Red Wings GM.

He did have to clean up an absolute mess by Kenny Holland.

I'm just not sure where he goes from here?

I think it’s a great trade for CGY. A retained Markstrom is probably worth a 2nd round pick and maybe a middle rounder. They get a 1st round pick for taking on the 2 years of a still serviceable player in Chiarot and just 1 year of Husso.

We’ll find out soon, but I disagree. Markstrom is still considered elite and is a sought after goaltender that at least 5 teams would love to have. With retention, he should bring a 1st + Player + Prospect. If we added, we should be able to get an earlier pick and/or Better Prospect included. We’ll see though, I could be wrong 😑

I certainly expected Yzerman to make a ton of trades when he took over and I’m still perplexed and disappointed in the missed opportunity on the Patrick Marleau deal in 2019 that ultimately netted Carolina Seth Jarvis.

I thought it was a foregone conclusion that Yzerman & Shanahan would link up in that deal and I’m still not over it. We’ve taken on one single cap dump in 6 years (Marc Staal) and he’s continued to dish out long term deal after another to mediocre players.

What bothered me almost as much as missing out on the Marleau deal was when Sean Monahan was being dangled as a cap dump who also netted MTL a first round pick for taking on just 1 year left on his deal (almost identical to the TOR/CAR deal) and instead of adding a serviceable player who played a position of need (C) and getting compensated to do so, he opted to dish out a 5 year deal to Andrew Copp. And then did it again the following season with JT Compher. Inexcusable.

To add insult to injury, Monahan was re-signed by MTL for cheap and then flipped at the deadline this past season for another 1st round pick.

Those are the kinds of moves I expected Yzerman to make, they’re moves I think about and would expect out of myself as a GM and it’s frustrating that he simply has not exhibited any form of shrewdness as GM thus far.