Yzerman's Free Agency Frenzy (Compher, Holl, Gostisbehere) and Zadina Waived - July 3rd, 2023

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Steve Yzerman did not take a break after the NHL Draft and made another big splash in free agency this year - tune in as we discuss, analyze, and project all of the additions and changes in Hockeytown!

We start with JT Compher joining the Detroit Red Wings on a 5 year, $5.1 million/year contract, discussing where he fits in behind Dylan Larkin as a right-handed center, how this deal compares to Andrew Copp's, and how the term will age, & more (4:40).

After that, the divisive Justin Holl contract, how it projects against the Ben Chiarot contract, whether he can offer RHD support behind Moritz Seider, what Steve Dangle had to say about him, & more (15:35).

Next, Daniel Sprong and the efficient goal scoring he can replicate from the Seattle Kraken (28:20), Shayne Gostisbehere and how he can be Detroit's power play QB in a post-Hronek era (32:35), Klim Kostin being signed after Kailer Yamamoto was bought out (35:10), James Reimer and Alex Lyon being brought in to replace Alex Nedeljkovic and Ville Magnus Hellberg to backup Ville Husso (38:05), Christian Fischer coming in from Arizona, Gustav Lindstrom returning, & lots more (42:35).

To cap off the free agency talk, we give our overall evaluation of the newest Detroit Red Wings free agent class, the Yzerplan moving forward, what Yzerman has to do to add high-end talent & scoring (DeBrincat? Nylander?), whether there's a roster jam that's blocking Marco Kasper, Elmer Soderblom, Carter Mazur, & other rookies, & lots more (45:20).

More big news: Filip Zadina has been waived. Is this the end for Filip in Hockeytown? How did we get here from "Fil Their Nets"? (1:09:25)

Finally, Tyler Bertuzzi signs a surprising contract in Toronto (1:16:05) & plenty more before we take your question during Overtime (1:23:05) - enjoy this massive episode!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the winged wheel podcast. Here to talk all things hockey are your hosts Brad
0:10.8	Crisco, Ryan Hanna, and Evan Lopsinger.
0:13.4	So nothing happened over the holiday long weekend that warranted an emergency episode. A lot happened in the
0:27.2	Redlands world and I'm not even just talking draft like Iceman went out and signed
0:30.9	a million players like it was last year, which was a bit surprising, but
0:34.4	nothing that crossed the threshold of, okay, wherever we are in the world, we have to pull the mics out
0:39.7	and record and just get something out because this is such monumental Red Wings news and you want to know why it didn't happen?
0:48.0	Because I brought my recording gear with me.
0:50.0	Of course. Yeah, this time. Like an absolute lunatic I had like swim trunks, you know,
0:56.8	bucket hat, shades, whatever, and a mic and recording equipment. And the universe went, well, it's not fun if he's prepared for this.
1:05.0	So we're just going to let them just enjoy their weekends.
1:09.0	Well, people could have just went back and listened to last year's episode at the same time
1:12.8	because Eizerman just signed Copp and Schrod again so you know you can just recycle some old
1:16.6	content on this one. Fair enough. Just ran it back. It is surprising the way this
1:20.8	free agency shook out and we're going to get into all that but I want to start
1:26.7	this by saying to new listeners genuinely not every episode is like an hour and a half to two hours and they're gonna stop believing me because this we don't know how long this one's gonna run
1:38.8	But this might be the third consecutive like mega episode. It's just such a whiplash amount of news in the
1:45.2	Red Wings world after just nothing nothing draft prep draft prep even
1:50.0	Red Wings hockey when it was on like nothing amounted to this amount of substance
1:54.9	genuinely and then two days of the draft then for you to see right after just
1:59.7	saying if the league started a bit earlier ended a bit bit earlier, did the draft, gave a little bit of time,
2:05.2	then for agency, then by like 4th of July slash Canada Day long weekend, everyone's already at their
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