BRAVO, STEVE YZERMAN (ANOTHER RED WINGS MOVE) + OILERS SIGN EVAN BOUCHARD TO MASSIVE EXTENSION

BRAVO, STEVE YZERMAN (ANOTHER RED WINGS MOVE) + OILERS SIGN EVAN BOUCHARD TO MASSIVE EXTENSION

well leave it to Cam Robinson to go out with the breaking bombs here we have ourselves a bouch bomb as the Edmonton Oilers have resigned Evan Buchard to a 4-year $10.5 million AAV deal ladies and gentlemen Evan Buchard is an 8digit defenseman and now with this deal in place we have a new core four in the National Hockey League between Evan Bousard and his 10.5 Conor McDavid and his 12.5 Leon Dryidle and his 14 and the last one in that core four oh you already know baby it is Darnell Nurse with him and his 9.25 yeah lots of guys going out here getting paid in Edmonton and now that Marner ended up leaving Toronto and John took a discount in Toronto that core 4 it’s not a thing anymore it’s a thing of the past now a different Canadian franchise has the core 4 but let’s go over onto Evan Bousard talk about some of his statistics talk about the signing and then we’ll talk about the Red Wings too because there was a second Detroit Red Wings contract handed out that I wanted to dive into in this video the Oilers according to Dom Lucian’s model are getting a fantastic deal on Evan Bousard who is one of the games best offensive defenseman dom’s model says that Bousard is getting about uh let’s just say $2.3 million less compared to what he’s actually worth his market value is 12.8 million but his actual contract is 10.5 now I know a lot of folks would go out there and start lambasting Buchard for the moments where his game does not look 10.5 or 12.8 million caliber there are definitely moments where Bousard does not look great where a few turnovers lead to some bad goals against and where he just doesn’t make the right defensive read but Evan Buchard is one of the games best offensive D and I don’t think anybody can necessarily disagree with that oh he plays with McDavid oh he plays with Dryside oh yada yada yada we all understand that you kind of need to be a good defenseman to be able to consistently produce at over a point per game in the playoffs the last three years 67 points in 82 games this most recent season and 82 points in 81 games last year evan Buchard no doubt about it is a top tier offensive dynamo but 10.5 yeah that’s kind of a lot and it’s indicative as to the modern status of NHL contracts and the salary cap picture of today if we head over to NHL players who are making money where can I find this uh cap players if I just Oh player dashboard that’s the first thing okay let’s go to find players let’s do starting season no 25 26 and then we will go to defenseman can we look at uh how do we do this is there a number here uh ah here on the side that’s exactly what it is let’s do defense and take a look at this so Eric Carlson 11.5 Drew Dowy 11 Dolly 11 bousard this the fourth most expensive defenseman in the National Hockey League making 1 million more than Zack Warinski which is uh h I don’t know how I feel about that 1 million more than Charlie Makavoy 1 million more than Adam Fox than Noah Dobson he’s making more than nurse of course kale Macar making nine absolute steal quinn Hughes making 78 absolute steal she Weber is in the final year of a 14-year contract so whoopde-doo good for him but either way Evan Buchard fine defenseman he’ll be sticking around in Edmonton for the next four years that seems to be the plan but he isn’t the only guy that I wanted to talk about in this signing commentary today i also wanted to dive into the Detroit Red Wings because they had just signed Albert Johansson earlier this morning we already made a video about that but they also grabbed themselves some burgers bergie is what they tweeted out here the Detroit Red Wings have signed Yonathan Bergen to a one-year contract with an AAV of $1.825 million now we had already spoken about the Albert Johansson contract and how that was actually really reasonable two years for Aljo as a top four defenseman that’s not bad especially at slightly over a million bucks I like that a lot but for Jonathan Bergrren I’m not going to go out there and say that the contract is similarly valued that it’s as good i think Bergrren of course has a longer body of work with the Detroit Red Wings thus jacking up that AAV a little bit but my I don’t know if it’s like a concern but the thing that I’m thinking about mostly is the fact that Stevie Y was even able to sign Bergen in the first place yes he had a fine season 24 points 75 games played sure he was more productive two seasons ago with Detroit with 28 points and 67 games but I’m thinking about last year where Yonathan Bergrren with the six points he had in 12 games with the regular Red Wings i’m thinking about how this guy wanted out so bad how the Red Wings were not giving him an opportunity he didn’t like being in the AHL he thought he was better than that and he inevitably was involved in all these trade rumors everybody was talking about “Oh Jonathan Bergren’s going to get moved he’s the default trade ship for Detroit he doesn’t want to be here anymore he wants a new opportunity this and that and the other thing to go from that to him signing a reasonable contract as a middle six forward to potentially replace Vladimir Terasenko’s minutes that is pretty good character development if I do say so myself 1.8 million for a guy who could reasonably get 20 to 30 points on the year he was on pace for half a point a game in 23-24 whilst dominating in the AHL but I don’t know if we could really take this season into account as to his NHL projectability but if Yonathan Bergen gets 30 points next year as a decent middle six guy with some wheels and some underrated playmaking all at $1.8 million a year that’s pretty good i get that you’re going to have to do the entire ressigning process all over again with Bergen a year from now but I think that’s a fine problem to have he’s a young guy he’s only 24 years old he’ll be turning 25 in just a few days here so early happy birthday to Yonathan Bergen I guess but the Detroit Red Wings doing some tidy business here with these two Swedes getting new deals steve Eisermanman making some hot signings once again and that’s why I wanted to talk about in this video here obviously the Evan Bousard stuff is also pretty big but for now let me know your thoughts in the comment section below about both of these contract signings how the Oilers resigned Buchard to a huge $10.5 million AAV extension for four years and how do you feel about Jonathan Bergen getting a one-year deal at 1.825 825 million a year thoughts in the comments section below it’s all going to be there for you we will I I don’t know if I will say we’re going to make some more videos about what happens i mean there are some other contracts that were just signed levy Marilinan was signed steven Lorent was signed qualifying offer guys and stuff ivan Provarov was just signed so was Andre Kusmano i don’t know if I really want to make videos about that though i wanted to talk about Edmonton and Detroit but yeah we’ll see what happens later on at today’s show anyways let me know in the comments all your opinions about these two conversations in particular booard and Bergen double B’s in Detroit and Edmonton i hope you enjoyed this video 999 and bye

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We’re going over some of the latest contract signings by the Detroit Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers, with Jonatan Berggren and Evan Bouchard each receiving deals.

This video is taking place after the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The 2025 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:

1st) New York Islanders, Matthew Schaefer
2nd) San Jose Sharks, Michael Misa
3rd) Chicago Blackhawks, Anton Frondell
4th) Utah Mammoth, Caleb Desnoyers
5th) Nashville Predators, Brady Martin
6th) Philadelphia Flyers, Porter Martone
7th) Boston Bruins, James Hagens
8th) Seattle Kraken, Jake O’Brien
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Radim Mrtka
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Roger McQueen
11th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Benjamin Kindel
12th) Philadelphia Flyers (from New York Rangers via Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins), Jack Nesbitt
13th) Detroit Red Wings, Carter Bear
14th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Jackson Smith
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Braeden Cootes
16th) New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames via Montreal Canadiens), Victor Eklund
17th) New York Islanders (from Montreal Canadiens), Kashawn Aitcheson
18th) Calgary Flames (from New Jersey Devils), Cole Reschny
19th) St. Louis Blues, Justin Carbonneau
20th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Minnesota Wild), Pyotr Andreyanov
21st) Nashville Predators (from Ottawa Senators), Cameron Reid
22nd) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Colorado Avalanche via Philadelphia Flyers), Bill Zonnon
23rd) Ottawa Senators (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Nashville Predators), Logan Hensler
24th) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Los Angeles Kings), Will Horcoff
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Vaclav Nestrasil
26th) Nashville Predators (from Vegas Golden Knights via San Jose Sharks), Ryker Lee
27th) Washington Capitals, Lynden Lakovic
28th) Winnipeg Jets, Sascha Boumedienne
29th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Mason West
30th) San Jose Sharks (from Dallas Stars), Joshua Ravensbergen
31st) Los Angeles Kings (from Edmonton Oilers via Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins), Henry Brzustewicz
32nd) Calgary Flames (from Florida Panthers), Cullen Potter

This video is also taking place after 2025 NHL Season, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.

Both Evan Bouchard and Jonatan Berggren were top NHL prospects at the 2018 NHL Entry Draft.

The 2018 NHL Entry Draft saw many top NHL prospects get selected by a variety of teams. The first round of the draft went as follows:

1st – Buffalo Sabres, Rasmus Dahlin
2nd – Carolina Hurricanes, Andrei Svechnikov
3rd – Montreal Canadiens, Jesperi Kotkaniemi
4th – Ottawa Senators, Brady Tkachuk
5th – Arizona Coyotes, Barrett Hayton
6th – Detroit Red Wings, Filip Zadina
7th – Vancouver Canucks, Quinn Hughes
8th – Chicago Blackhawks, Adam Boqvist
9th – New York Rangers, Vitali Kravtsov
10th – Edmonton Oilers, Evan Bouchard
11th – New York Islanders, Oliver Wahlstrom
12th – New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames), Noah Dobson
13th – Dallas Stars, Ty Dellandrea
14th – Philadelphia Flyers (from St. Louis Blues), Joel Farabee
15th – Florida Panthers, Grigori Denisenko
16th – Colorado Avalanche, Martin Kaut
17th – New Jersey Devils, Ty Smith
18th – Columbus Blue Jackets, Liam Foudy
19th – Philadelphia Flyers, Jay O’Brien
20th – Los Angeles Kings, Rasmus Kupari
21st – San Jose Sharks, Ryan Merkley
22nd – New York Rangers (from Pittsburgh Penguins via Ottawa Senators), K’Andre Miller
23rd – Anaheim Ducks, Isac Lundestrom
24th – Minnesota Wild, Filip Johansson
25th – St. Louis Blues (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Dominik Bokk
26th – Ottawa Senators (from Boston Bruins via New York Rangers), Jacob Bernard-Docker
27th – Chicago Blackhawks (from Nashville Predators), Nicolas Beaudin
28th – New York Rangers (from Tampa Bay Lightning), Nils Lundkvist
29th – Toronto Maple Leafs (from Winnipeg Jets via St. Louis Blues), Rasmus Sandin
30th – Detroit Red Wings (from Vegas Golden Knights), Joe Veleno
31st – Washington Capitals, Alexander Alexeyev

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