{"id":447188,"date":"2024-08-04T10:12:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=447188"},"modified":"2024-08-04T10:12:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T14:12:15","slug":"nhl-rumours-detroit-red-wings-rfa-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/08\/04\/nhl-rumours-detroit-red-wings-rfa-update\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumours: Detroit Red Wings RFA Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time for another edition of NHL rumours. We’re in the dog days of summer and some think this is a dead period for the NHL. However, there’s still plenty to discuss on the hot stove front. Most of the mid-summer time in the hockey world is talking about restricted free agents. We’re nearing the end of arbitration, but some RFAs remain unsigned. Two of the higher-profile RFAs that have yet to ink a new deal are on the Detroit Red Wings<\/a>. This edition of NHL rumours deals tries to offer an update on where negotiations are.<\/p>\n

All NHL rumours come from the original source and are subject to change.<\/p>\n

NHL Rumours<\/h2>\n

Status of Talks with Detroit Red Wings RFAs<\/h3>\n

Rumour: Sportsnet’s Luke Fox and Rory Boylen looked at the status<\/a> of the current crop of unsigned RFAs.<\/a> We look at Moritz Seider<\/a> and Lucas Raymond<\/a> in this edition.<\/em><\/p>\n

Analysis<\/em>: Both players figure to be key parts of the “Yzerplan” of General Manager Steve Yzerman<\/a>. Seider is a rock on the back-end and Raymond has started figuring into the offence more for Detroit.<\/p>\n

The Red Wings have over $17.6 million in salary cap space according to Puckepedia.<\/a> Detroit already inked one of their RFAs<\/a> in Joe Veleno<\/a> and have yet to find a deal for Jonatan Berggren<\/a>. However, the main signings left are that of Seider and Raymond.<\/p>\n

Let’s Make a Deal – Seider<\/h4>\n

Fox and Boylen toss out an $8.6 million number for Seider as a potential dollar amount. It would give the German blueliner a deal comparable to some of his contemporaries. Players like Owen Power<\/a>, Jake Sanderson<\/a> and Rasmus Dahlin<\/a> each got similar deals<\/a> after their entry-level deal expired.<\/p>\n

This deal allow the Wings to have Seider for a good number of his prime years and give him good compensations. The $8.6 million cap hit would allow some room to get a deal for Raymond.<\/p>\n

Barring anything disastrous, the salary cap will go up and this deal will seem like a bargain if Seider continue to trend in the right direction. He’s likely to play into the team’s plans for seasons to come.<\/p>\n

Let’s Make a Deal – Raymond<\/h4>\n

Another thing Yzerman wants to do is give Seider some term so the defender’s contract won’t be an issue for a while. Fox and Boylen speculate that a deal for Raymond would either be a bridge or a middle-term deal.<\/p>\n

Detroit probably doesn’t want to burden itself with a lot of long-term deals. Too many big contracts is what handcuffed former General Manager Ken Holland<\/a>. Yzerman has given some questionable deals<\/a> in his tenure in Hockeytown, so he probably wants to get these two contracts right.<\/p>\n

Raymond getting a long-term contract may be a victim of the numbers game and he may have to settle for a deal of just a few seasons. However, he could always cash in if he continues to trend upward.<\/p>\n

There may be some struggles in getting a contract done, but the Sportsnet duo thinks an agreement will be reached. It might take some time, but things shouldn’t drag on too long.<\/p>\n

Main photo by: Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time for another edition of NHL rumours. We’re in the dog days of summer and some think this is a dead period for the NHL. However, there’s still plenty to discuss on the hot stove front. Most of the mid-summer time in the hockey world is talking about restricted free agents. We’re nearing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":443674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,4547,4548,4321],"tags":[6264,4224,3916,399],"class_list":["post-447188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redwings","category-hockey","category-nhl","category-rumours","tag-detroit-red-wings-rumours","tag-lucas-raymond","tag-moritz-seider","tag-steve-yzerman"],"modified_by":"Tommy Bennett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}