2008/2009 Red Wings Season Update - Detroit Pistons Fan Community

mikhail1973 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-20-2008, 12:44 PM

With successful 2007/2008 season over, it is time to look to the upcoming 2008/2009 season that will be upon us before we know it.

Here's a very good summary of the state of the Wings as of today:

Off-Season Game Plan: Red Wings

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Winning the Stanley Cup puts the Detroit Red Wings in the enviable position of playing with house money this summer.

Off-Season Game Plan looks at what the Wings might try to accomplish as they re-load in an effort to defend their championship next season.

Detroit's consistently strong regular seasons -- eight straight seasons with more than 100 points -- have been undermined by some earlier than expected playoff departures, but a trip to the Conference Final in 2007 and a Stanley Cup win in 2008 puts the Wings at the top of the hockey world with a team that promises to stay competitive for the forseeable future.

"I think we're getting better; we'll be better next year," head coach Mike Babcock told MLive.com. "That doesn't mean we'll win more games or be in this situation (next season), but we got great kids coming up and our core guys are (mostly) young and are going to be better."

What makes the Wings' roster so amazing is that it is comprised of so many mid-to-late-round draft steals, something imperative for a team that has been drafting late in the first round every year if they are to stay at the top.

mikhail1973 · #2 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 07:33 PM

Wings start the off-season by resigning d-man Stewart to a 4-year $15 million contract and signing goaltender Ty Conklin for $750K. I guess they are not all that high on Jimmy Howard, as Conklin will be fighting him for a backup job. Ozzie got re-signed to a 3-year deal.

On the other front, looks like Sundin is not looking to play for the cup, as I guess he turned down 1-year $7 mil from Wings as he already has a 2-year $20 mil offer from supposedly Vancouver. Wings also didn't get Rolston. However, they are also talking to Bertuzzi about bringing him back.

Darth Tater · #3 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by mikhail1973

Wings start the off-season by resigning d-man Stewart to a 4-year $15 million contract and signing goaltender Ty Conklin for $750K. I guess they are not all that high on Jimmy Howard, as Conklin will be fighting him for a backup job. Ozzie got re-signed to a 3-year deal.

On the other front, looks like Sundin is not looking to play for the cup, as I guess he turned down 1-year $7 mil from Wings as he already has a 2-year $20 mil offer from supposedly Vancouver. Wings also didn't get Rolston. However, they are also talking to Bertuzzi about bringing him back.

They signed Conklin?

Wow, that's great. He did a tremendous job subbing for the injured Fleury last year in Pitt and my guess is they only gave the job back to Fleury to avoid a goalie controversy.

raxrets · #4 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Darth Tater

They signed Conklin?

Wow, that's great. He did a tremendous job subbing for the injured Fleury last year in Pitt and my guess is they only gave the job back to Fleury to avoid a goalie controversy.

So it was like Darko curse - trade Darko away cuz he endangered other big's PT, according to lee356/7 ?

Why not? Darko took away plenty of garbage minutes from other bigs...

Darth Tater · #5 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 09:25 PM

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So it was like Darko curse - trade Darko away cuz he endangered other big's PT, according to lee356/7 ?

Why not? Darko took away plenty of garbage minutes from other bigs...

Not exactly.

Conklin actually produced.

raxrets · #6 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Darth Tater

Not exactly.

Conklin actually produced.

Things may be even more interesting - I went to pens forums and folks there seriously thought that Conklin signed with wings cuz he saw a chance to dethrone osgood...

Darth Tater · #7 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 09:46 PM

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Things may be even more interesting - I went to pens forums and folks there seriously thought that Conklin signed with wings cuz he saw a chance to dethrone osgood...

Ozzy is getting up there. Kudos to him for bringing us the cup, but I think Conklin just may be our future goaltender.

round · #8 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 10:35 PM

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Ozzy is getting up there. Kudos to him for bringing us the cup, but I think Conklin just may be our future goaltender.

looking up his stats.. he's only 4 years younger then ozzie but has a much shorter history Ty Conklin - Pittsburgh Penguins - Career Statistics - NHL - Yahoo! Sports

nice backup but don't see him as a long term answer to being ozzy's replacement

Darth Tater · #9 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 11:15 PM

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looking up his stats.. he's only 4 years younger then ozzie but has a much shorter history Ty Conklin - Pittsburgh Penguins - Career Statistics - NHL - Yahoo! Sports

nice backup but don't see him as a long term answer to being ozzy's replacement

I stand corrected. I thought Conklin was a kid.

round · #10 (**permalink**) 07-01-2008, 11:22 PM

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I stand corrected. I thought Conklin was a kid.

so did i, was rather shocked to see he was as old as he was... a really good friend is a penns fan, so was giving her a hard time so i wanted to look his stats up to see what he had done before this last year.