Jiri Hudler set to return to Detroit
by Casey Richey on Apr 30, 2010 1:05 PM CDT
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PrintJiri Hudler has decided to come back to the Red Wings for the 2010-2011 season.
Hudler departed Detroit over salary issues as the Red Wings faced a tough cap to try and fit their free agents. Hudler left the Wings for the Kontinental Hockey League and Moscow Dynamo. However, in arbitration the Wings locked up a two year contract for Hudler should he decide to return to the NHL. Moscow's team folded following some front office issues and Hudler is looking for a new home.
The Wings tried to replace the forward during the summer of 2009 with either Jason Williams or Todd Bertuzzi. Although Bertuzzi had an impact on the season, Williams broke his leg and spent a good portion of the season on IR. Williams is unlikely to stay with the Red Wings following this season and his salary will free up space for Hudler's $2.875 million contract.
Hudler brings a scoring touch that was sorely missed at times this season as well as some great passing skills. As a fan favorite while in Detroit, the young forward will likely be greeted warmly in his return.
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Most likely situations are that Draper/Maltby are scratches or retire… which is too bad.
General concesus is that Williams is gone.
Rittola has to come up next year doesn’t he? He’ll do the scratch/GR thing like Abby did this year.
Miller will probably be back, but possibly be a scratch some days.
And Janik is coming up, right? But if he is coming up Lebdeech can go. Lindstrom’s salary will probably decrease a bit (I assume he’ll be back).
As far as goal, we have Howie and Ozzy. If Howard isn’t under contract his salary will go up a bit I’m sure.
I’m just taking guesses here, I’m too lazy to look the facts/numbers up.
Lol yea
same here.. too much effort. I hope Janik and Rittola see alot of playing time next year i watched them a few times this year and really liked what i saw. I even think using Tatar once or twice to see where hes at would be cool… i dont think hes ready yet, but I just want to see where hes at. The games i seen with him, he was awesome.
I think this would be a decent roster
I spent entirely too much time at work on this:
Forwards
Homer ($2.000m) – Datsyuk ($6.700m) – Mule ($3.955m)
Fil ($3.000m) – Zetterberg ($6.083m) – Tuzzi ($1.500m)
Hudler ($2.875m) – Helm ($0.850m) – Cleary ($2.800m)
Eaves ($0.750m) – Gator ($0.850m) – Miller ($0.750m)
Draper ($1.583m) – Ritola ($0.525m)
Defensemen
Rafalski ($6.000m) – Lidstrom ($5.000m)
Stuart ($3.750m) – Kronwall ($3.000m)
Lilja ($1.000m) – Ericsson ($0.900m)
Kindl ($0.883m)
Goaltenders
Jimmah ($0.717m)
Osgood ($1.417m)
Roster size 23
Salary Cap $57,700,000 (number is based on this article)
Payroll $56,887,876
Cap space $812,124
Obviously, I’m no Ken Holland but this seems like a good place to start from.
Personally, I would like to see Lilja traded. I don’t think he has much of a future with us, not with Janik and Kindl waiting for their chance. Kindl has another year on his two-way contract, I believe, so we could have him be the seventh defenseman in case of injury (assuming the earlier poster was correct about Janik being done in Grand Rapids). I would like to see Ericsson and Kindl get some playing time alongside Lidstrom next season, to be honest.
by Apocalyptic0n3 on Apr 30, 2010 5:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Rafalski
I’d rather move Rafalski’s contract. He’s a good player but not worth over 10% of the cap space. Move him to a team that needs D, pick up some prospects and picks. Then move the lines around and bring up Kindl.
Lidstrom & Stuart
Kronwall & Lilja
Ericsson & Kindl
Brain Rafalski is going nowhere
He has a no-trade clause, and is happy playing near family. He’s not moving anywhere unless it is his choice.
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Salaries, cap hits, my prediction
Hit for next season (including Hudler): 39.905 (assuming 57.700 cap next season, that leaves 17.795)
(Name FA salary~hit)
Holmstrom UFA 2.250
Bertuzzi UFA 1.500
Williams UFA 1.500
May UFA 0.500~0.482
Maltby UFA 0.750~0.883
Helm RFA 0.500~0.598
Abdelkader RFA 0.710~0.520
Eaves RFA 0.500
Miller RFA 0.525~0.413
Ritola RFA 0.535~0.032
(Holstrom 1.500, Bertuzzi 1.500, *Maltby 0.500, Helm 0.850, Abdelkader 0.850, Eaves 0.850, Miller 0.850, Ritola 0.600 = 6.65 from 8.678)
Lidstrom UFA 7.450
Lilja UFA 1.250
Lebda UFA 0.850~0.650
Janik UFA 0.500~0.080
Meech RFA 0.500~0.483
Kindl RFA 0.765~0.026
Tollefsen RFA 0.600~0.006
(Lidstrom 6.00, Lilja 1.000, Meech 0.500, *Kindl 0.850, *Tollefsen 0.750 = 11.513 from 9.945)
Larsson RFA 0.685~0.018
(*Larsson 0.750)
1.118 above cap, a few players above roster limit. Sending players to Grand Rapids (waiving a couple) likely clears the cap by 2
this makes me happy
Just because I like the spunky little guy. I’ve said before that when he left for Russia it was like my baby brother ran away to join the circus.
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you had to figure he would return
It would be nice if they could come to an agreement with fedorov to come back and finish his career as a wing isnt he playing in the russian league to
I'm fine with Fedorov staying in Russia
I actually love the fact that Fedorov left at a time when Russian players knew there might be a chance they would never be able to return home as long as they lived, because of the political situation, and that now with the changes in the former Soviet Union he had an opportunity to play for his birth country out of choice, not because he was forced to.
With the salary cap, Detroit can’t afford to give out feel-good legacy contracts. He had a good run in Detroit and can feel happy with the successes he achieved.
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Ha ha, the victory rally in 2008
“Let’s go Red Wings!……….Come on!!!!!……I can’t hear you!!!!!!!”, I don’t know about anyone else, but that cracked me up.
Sweet
You cant blame the guy for going to Russia for a year. I mean think about it. He went to Russia for a year for $5 million and still is Red Wing property for 2 years. Its like going down to Grand Rapids for a year for extra seasoning but in a more competitive environment. He is going to come back and score 30 goals for the Wings next year show everyone what they have missed. Not that we all missed much but in the first half of the season it looked like the team was lost. If it wasnt for that 16-3 finish we probably wouldnt be in the playoffs. So I am happy to see Juri come back.
easy on the expectations
There is no telling what level of competition the KHL provided from this distance. If he can just come back and play solid hockey with a scoring touch that will net him 20 goals or so, he will be a good fit with the team. Players like that in their mid-20s aren’t available for his contract price on the free agent market, and that is kind of the equivalent.
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