Patrick Eaves signs one-year deal with Wings

I really hope they get Mike Grier yet, but with the cap hit a mere $500,000 it is a great signing. He has also shown he can score at this level by netting 20 as a rookie. He has a great wrist shot from what I can remember and has great speed. Put him with Helm, no one will catch them.

I agree with just about what everyone else is saying…low cost…young guy with good energy…hopefully pays off well in the way of a Cleary but even if he doesnt leaves us room to make a key addition somewhere down the season. But I definitely see him performing very well in a 3rd/4th liner while maybe seeing some PK action along side Helm or Draper.

you guys should like Patrick Eaves. He has a wicked wrister and is solid in his own end. He will get on your nerves though. He will go a while with out scoring and then he will let one rip from the hash mark that Patty Roy and Martin Brodeur’s man baby couldnt stop. You will wonder where it was the whole time.

I like the signing of Eaves. I love the term.

I hope its all good but I wonder why Boston cut him loose, especially after they just traded for him, doesn’t make sense? Have we determined that he’s not damaged goods If legiit he could be a Cleary, the Wings organization has a way of elevating players spirits and play.

O n another note I’m still steamed with Babcock with the way he crafted the Finals, no way should the Pens have beaten us, Babcock’s strategy failed! He physced himself and team into a failure. One more year, he’d better have a successful year.

Someone saw some enough talent in him when he was in college to take him in the 1st round of the draft. Injuries can be a bitch, so let’s hope his are not an issue and they are behind him. If they are, then this is going to be a great signing this off-season. Like a few others have stated, bring Mike Grier in. I was hoping now that the Hudler issue is cleared up and we know for certain he s headed to Moscow, that the Wings would sign Grier. Maybe, just maybe, I am a just thinking a few days in advance of the actual signing……

I just finished rewatching the 2008 Stanley Cup Finals, because I thought that maybe just maybe it was my imagination that the NHL used a crew of Redwing haters for the finals the last two years. I used a sientific methood that counted the number of negative connotations used to describe Redwing players and or positive remarks to describe the play. I also counted the number of plays that they were critical of the officiating for either team. The results are astounding!!! The average is every forty seconds a negative comment such as they (Lidstrom and Rafalski) are killing the game. Silence when asked to decribe how so? by the head weasel. Case in point number two, the Redwings win the Cup and all they talk about is the Hossa shot that missed the net after time expired. Case three in the handshake line Cindy Crosby is a great warriar and Tomas Holmstrom is EVIL!!! I rest my case.
Why the Redings should not sign Andreas “killya” Lilja
1. Western Conference Finals turnover of puck to Teemu Selanne for the series winning goal.
2. Stepped on the puck in a critical moment of game two of the 2008 finals, gave the puck up for a breakaway for Petr Sykora that Osgood bailed Lilja out.
3. Finals Game Six Penalty Killing with 46 seconds on the clock and Lilja loses his stick because he is not paying attention to Ryan Malone and the Redwings are scored on while he makes a poor attempt to block the shot.
4. Lilja is a turnover machine on a team that plays, puck control. Very bad combination.
5. Lilja is a choker see the above, please do not sign him. Let the Penguins have him or Anaheim or Chicago.
6. Sign Chris Chelios!!!