Posts Tagged ‘Detroit Red Wings Hockey’
Zetterberg Signs New Deal
Posted by Joe in Detroit Red Wings Hockey on January 30th, 2009
The Red Wings are awesome.
Henrick Zetterberg signed the longest and most lucrative contract deal in Red Wings history. Zetterberg signed a cap friendly deal for an astounding 12 years worth $73 million. This will keep in Detroit until he’s 40 years old! The deal works out at $6.08 million a year against our cap – an extremely affordable figure for such a dynamic forward.
Zetterberg has been a stallwort with the Wings since arriving in the 2000-01 season and helped us with the Stanley cup in 2007-08. He is adept at controlling the pucks, he’s good defensively and he can put the puck in the net and has scored 80 plus points twice in his career. He had a career high 45 goals last year. ”Hank” is currently out nursing a bad back.
More than the value of being able to lock down Hank Z, this signing re-inforces my beleif that this is the best run pro club in Detroit, the NHL and for that matter – all of professional sports. The fact that guys like Zetterberg and Hossa would sign for less than their market value speaks volumes about their coaches, management and owner. Even mor than that, I can’t figure out how they keep churning out players from their draft picks. Their skill at finding both high, mid and late round picks that keep turning out to be solid hockey players has been unmatched. I can only think of the San Antonio Spurs as a comparison.
Henrick Zetterberg Career Stats:
| Stats | ||||||||||||||||
| Year | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | +/- | PIM | PPG | PPA | SHG | SHA | GW | GT | SOG | Pct | |
| 2002-03 | DET | 79 | 22 | 22 | 44 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 135 | .163 | |
| 2003-04 | DET | 61 | 15 | 28 | 43 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 137 | .109 | |
| 2005-06 | DET | 77 | 39 | 46 | 85 | 29 | 30 | 17 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 270 | .144 | |
| 2006-07 | DET | 63 | 33 | 35 | 68 | 26 | 36 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 224 | .147 | |
| 2007-08 | DET | 75 | 43 | 49 | 92 | 30 | 34 | 16 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 358 | .120 | |
| 2008-09 | DET | 45 | 17 | 26 | 43 | 11 | 20 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 170 | .100 | |
| Career | 400 | 169 | 206 | 375 | 117 | 142 | 63 | 73 | 5 | 5 | 34 | 1 | 1294 | .131 | ||
Datsyuk, Lidstrom penalized by NHL for skipping All-Star weekend
Posted by Joe in Detroit Red Wings Hockey on January 24th, 2009
In the NHL’s and Gary Bettman’s infinite wisdom, they have decided to suspend Detroit’s Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk, who will miss the All-Star Game because of injury, for the first game back after the break. This mean’s they’ll be out for Tuesday’s game versus the Columbus Blue Jackets. Lidstrom is bothered by an ankle injury that won’t heal completely and Datsyuk has an issue with his hip. Lidstrom has appeared in 10 straight All-Star games as the game’s premier defensive player for over a decade. This was the Datsyuk’s third All-Star selection, for the game’s best defensive forward.
Nick Lidstrom will miss the 2009 All-Star game and the first game back from the break.
Does Bettman think that anyone even watches the NHL All-Star Game? Is it THAT important? I could see if the player just did not want to show up, or needed to go to Cabo instead; but, both Red Wings players have legitimate injuries and I can understand their not wanting to go. Even more so than that, I think this should come down to a fine. If the Red Wings come down to a race to get to the playoffs and finished a couple of points out – this would be an absolutely ridiculous reason. They should fine the players who miss the game if its something that they have to go to.
The bottom line is that the NHL All-Star game is awful. There’s nothing good about it: no fights, no goaltending, no defense.
