Red Wings: 3 Bad Contracts That Will Haunt Detroit
By John Manzo
Former general manager Ken Holland isn’t signing players for the Detroit Red Wings, but the team still feels the effects of these three bad contracts.
The Detroit Red Wings “paid the price” and now they’re “paying the price.”
Former general manager Ken Holland is long gone from the city of Detroit. In fact, according to Google Maps, he’s approximately 1,942 miles away in his new home of Edmonton.
But despite being in a different country and two time zones away, Holland’s fingerprints are all over this Red Wings roster, obviously.
As Monday’s trade deadline approaches, let’s take a look at the three worst contracts on the roster (not named Henrik Zetterberg and Johan Franzen) that will be IMPOSSIBLE to move and leave general manager Steve Yzerman wondering, “what was Kenny thinking?”