4:18 Funnily, Nikita Zadorov's stats in 2022-23 were... 14G and 7A for 21PTS

Future ("If this player is still available at 14 don't take him") Considerations

Sharks fan here. My thoughts throughout this video. Redwings... uh huh... Redwings... weird stats, I agree... more redwings... Sharks? "The team they iced last year was a little disrespectful..." You're... not wrong.

Lucas Raymond needs a contract.

Steve is making room for Edvinsson and Johansson to join the Wings lineup, as well as creating cap space for his excellent young players. Raymond and Seider.

I find it extremely hard to believe that no one would take Wallman for absolutely nothing…. Why was the 2nd included. Homerun for the Sharks imo.

I can only assume Stevie is cooking something because I have no idea why he made this move and why we got NOTHING for Walman? Like... How nothing?

I don’t like this deal at all. Walman was great for us and it feels like there’s something happening. There has to be some major cash being splashed to justify that sort of cap dump on a genuinely good player.

love all the people who casually forget Steve Yzerman is the same guy who wouldn't blink and basically showed Martin St. Louis the door

As a Wings fan, this sucks. Did not want to see Walman go, this guy was ready to be here a long time. And we got nothing. And we still have Justin Holl and Andrew Copp.

You're absolutely right, Steve! I keep telling my husband that the next week, or two, are going to be some of the busiest for NHL general managers in a long time! I'll be watching your videos and sharing them too! Nancy

LOL You’d think if Yzerman wanted to dump a bad defence contract he would’ve given them Justin Holl

This trade makes literally no sense. I really hope he’s got something big coming.

SD nailed it. Stevie is definitely up to something. Wings fans need to sit back and watch him cook. Also there is nothing more important than signing Seider and Raymond and managing the cap. I love Walman but this move can't be judged in the moment... something's up.

As a wings fan, I think Stevie Y is cooking something up

Mr. Dressup was my hero growing up! Loved Casey and Finnigan.

As a sharks fan I resonate with that comment about their team last year 😂😂

As a Wings fan, we've been patient for years now. Some of us feel we needed the blue line help to get us into the playoffs and we did nothing. Trading arguably our 2nd best defenseman is confusing AF. We need goals, but we also need to let in less goals more importantly. In a week we'll probably understand, but we lack patience now

By far one of the funniest videos I've seen from this channel. I need more weird trades for this content.

Stevie Y must have made a Jeff Finger deal here, where he thought he was dumping Justin Holl for 2nd rounder but mistakenly wrote down Walmans name

'right down to the -16 next to it' made me roll

Maybe the Red Wings are going to get future considerations Givani Smith and Filip Zadina?😅

Us wings fans do trust in the Yzerplan, but we also loved Walman

Steve gotta be cooking. I can't think of any other reason to dump cap space like that

Ready for all the SDPN content !!!!! Bring it! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Yzerman should have given up more and shipped away Holl instead.

6:15 Another possibility is perhaps he wasn't a fan of the "griddy" 😂.

I have no idea why a pick had to be tied to Walman if you had to move him

There’s just no spot for Walman to play next season, too many LD. Detroit basically traded a 2nd + Walman for a 3rd. Expect more moves from Yzerman to dump salaries.

Yzerman is cooking

Yzerman is trying to get celebriny😂

I don't understand why the Red Wings didn't just waive his contract to see if a team would take him on for nothing before they attached an asset to get rid of his contract. I feel like at the bare minimum that procedural aspect would not make the fan base hate the trade as much as they did.

Future Considerations can also mean an AHL contract. The Canucks and Rangers did a trade like this a couple of years ago.

Love Stevie Y. Something big is coming 🎉🎉🎉

From a San Jose Sharks fan perspective, the Sharks wanted an offensive defensemen to replace Calen Addison, who didn't quite work out in his role from an individual perspective. Walman gives them that albeit with that low assist total. The Sharks are up-in-the-air on whether Shakir Mukhamadulin, the defensemen they acquired from New Jersey in the deal with Timo Meier, will actually make the roster on opening night. Mukhamadulin, 22, had a cup of coffee in January, and this deal hedges their bets a little. The Sharks defensive core is probably their weakest spot going into 2024-25 and as Steve said, this team has to spend money. Overall, I think this is a low risk, medium reward move by Mike Grier who has made a couple of them the last few days. The Sharks also recently acquired F Ty Dellandrea from Dallas (traded for a 4th) and F Egor Afanasyev from Nashville (traded for F Ozzy Wiesblatt) for basically nothing as well. In the summer, expect San Jose to keep going after wingers and defensemen. There's a lot of roster questions with this team going into next season, so expect more trades and more signings from this team. The Sharks don't even know if Logan Couture will ever be cleared to play again, which might mean $29.33m in cap space goes up to $37.34m. A lot of the roster spot favorites are unproven players, young players, and/or RFAs. The only guys with a spot secured next season are Celebrini, Eklund, Granlund, Zetterlund, Sturm, Ferraro, Walman, Vlasic (because of his NMC, if he didn't have it, he'd be an AHLer). Everything else is up in the air, and damn, it's exciting for me.

Wallman is an asset ...in fact, many defenseman would be signed, at a good figure, as free agents..LoL

that's like when I play NHL franchise mode, and I pick my side of the trade, and then I accidently drop the controllel and the impact pushes some buttons and accepts the trade without filling the other side with assets. is Yzerman playing the real NHL on a gamepad? did he drop it?

I cracked up at "what the sharks put on the ice was disrespectful"

I don’t like this deal at all as a Wings fan, but that’s mostly because I love Wally. A real heart and soul guy who was a fan fave. I think this wasn’t Holl or Petry because we have way less depth on the right side and because Holl might get waived.

Looks like he’s going for Stamkos. Let’s face it. He built that Lightning team.

shayne gostisbehere caught the BIGGEST stray at 5:32:

I'm glad you are feeling better. You look healthy

The wings had more double digit goal scorers than any other team i think. Walman has a huge clapper, one of the fastest in the league

I doubt he traded Jake because of the Griddy. He only does the Griddy when he scores an overtime goal, which happens two or three times a year. Everybody got a kick out of it and an OT goal is something to celebrate.

As a wings and walman fan I sure Stevie does some big with this trade

Damn, I'm so early the bots are still attacking. Yzerman has got to be trying to sign Kane and Ghost while still working the numbers for Seider and Raymond, not to mention Veleno needs a new contract.

Stevie sending a message for that collapse against the sharks last winter 😂

He's trying to convince Parise to come back so they can sign both him and Suter like they wanted to do 25 years ago

Wings fan here... This story is still in progress, so I'm going to have to see what transpires from here on out.

We know they have to sign both Seider and Raymond. They will most likely come in at a little above 8.5 x 8. If they also sign Gostisbehere to a 6 x 4 (which it sounds like is the asking price) they've spend 23 mil. I wonder if they looking very hard at Necas or Zegras and making room for. Also the red wings have atleast two nhl ready rookie defencemen in Simon Edvinsson and Albert Johansson, they have to make room for them.

GREAT video Steve

Yzerman didn't like Walman doing the gritty, so he was traded 😂

No idea.what SY is cooking, but inwas shocked to see walman go, i could be wrong but i thought holl and petry have no trade clauses, i just hope these future considerations pay off. Does anyone have an example of future considerations paying off?

No love for Mike Grier snagging a 2nd round pick in addition to a player we would have acquired outright with no sweetener?

Raymond, Veleno, & Seider are all up, and are all going to command a lot. Raymond & Seider north 8 IMO. Yzerman wants as much flexibly as possible coming into this off season. I also think the conversation started with a Holl or a Chiarot being sent to the Sharks for cap relief but the compensation was too much for Yzerman to consider and it got negotiated down to Walman instead.

*Yzerman stays around Michigan, you will randomly see him show up to local OHL games. Dude has an itch that will never be scratched. He is the most Michigan person ive known and hes Canadian. In Yzerman we trust.*

Steve has done a great job with Tampa and has been doing good things in Detroit wait and see I bet he’s got something up his sleeve😊

Great trade for the Sharks! It helps that we suck now and have the Cap space to take this contract on!

Thanks for the video. As soon as i saw this trade i started thinking of the possibilities. This has to be Yzerman making space for an upcoming move. Jake Walman was a player that fans liked in Detroit. He seems like a good Locker Room guy and has a nice offensive side. Solid Defensemen who automatically is in San Jose's top 4. As far as how Wings fans feel about Yzerman; He is a beloved member of Detroit Sports Royalty and he would have to screw up royally for fans to turn on him. I think he's done a good job with the team, not perfect, but good. The team has seen steady improvement every year since he got here. The team could be better, but when you look at the mess that Holland left, Yzerman had to undue a lot of bad "GM-ing".

The free particle is Utah. Not all the 'Yotes players may be on board, some may not like Salt Lake City much, and there are plenty of teams hedging bets on that. Not pointing to any situations in particular; it just seems the math all around the league has been funny, as if guided by invisible gravitational forces, and I'm guessing that's one of them. Yzerman tends to get things really right or really wrong when cooking. Either way, he thinks macro.

What would be the consequences for a team not making the cap floor?

As a red wings fan and a diehard Yzerman supporter im just going to say this trade absolutely pisses me off and there better be a bigger reason behind this because Jake was a fan favorite here and wanted to spend his whole career in Detroit

Sharks fan here. Just you wait buddy, this young core is comin to knock whatever team austin matthews goes to out the playoffs in a couple years ;)

The only way this trade makes sense is if the Red Wings sign a starter quality goalie under 24 for almost the same price as Walman

Either there is another shoe to drop here in the form of a player to be signed to a new deal after July 1st (I don't know who this player is) going back to the Red Wings, there's something about Walman we don't know yet, or Yzerman is no longer a good GM.

Bye, Wally? Can...can we pay Patrick Kane now? Maybe wheel that pick back out? Shuffle the deck, I guess.

Love the Mr dress up shirt 👍🏼

With Steve talking about all the streams his going to be doing especially one afternoon 5pm deadline on free agency, imagine if it peters out to nothing like the mid season trade deadline this season gone

i hope Walman Griddys on people in SJ, ill miss him in the winged wheel.

I understand moving Walman. I think us Wings fans overvalue him a little bit. Only thing I don’t get is having to attach the 2nd in order to move him. I’m gonna try to not react too much until after the draft and free agency period.

Saw a Gibson trade and got excited… not quite

The Wings are loaded on defense and need some of those prospects to move up to the big club so as not to lose them via waivers. With the extra space maybe Stevie can sign Mo, Raymond and Kane.

What a mystery. Perhaps Steve will find it in the Tickle Trunk.

This question is not being asked enough. WHY did Stevie trade him along with a second round asset, when he could have simply waived Jake, and he would’ve been picked up in about five minutes…while keeping the asset????? Help me….

Walman is weird, as his stats show. He really struggled to hang with Seider this time around. Tho I still wouldn't think you would need to give up a 2nd to dump him, and we still have Holl... Which sucks.

Just a thought... whens the last time the leafs and wings made a trade?

Wings fan here We like him

Looks like Stammer is going to Nashville

To be honest, Yzerman has been a MASSIVE letdown for me as a Wings fan. Like, okay, when he came in, it was the usual, briding contracts, signing guys like Filppula... eh, okay, but his drafting has not been anything special, nothing like in Tampa, Detroit had overpaid defence, so he got rid of those, and got more defencemen that he overpaid and the fans want out (I mean, Holl, seriously, I saw Steve lose his mind 50 times over him, and Yzerman paid him, fff-), and now it's the questionable moves like getting NOTHING for Walman, and actually giving up something to do it. Walman was not the problem. Why not try putting him on waivers to save the 2nd round pick?

"The team they iced last year was disrespectful." 💀

The team they iced last year was disrespectful had me dead ngl

Mo= 8m+, Raymond=8m+, So that leaves 16m+ on the table. Kane + Stamkos signing would rock the NHL. Will that happen? probably not, but what if it does? lol

Because Steve Yzerman is a Wing legend, Wings fans fall all over themselves defending him. If his name were "Joe Smith" he would have been ridden out of town 2 years ago.

Am i being stupid, or is this not just to make space for Raymond and Seider's new contracts?

Can’t wait to see what overpay SY does here. Tough to be a wings fan these days. Stuck in neutral.

Stevie Y im sure is eyeing stamkos

Cap space to sign Kane?

the griddy gets a new area code.

Yannick Weber did it with the Canucks 2014-15 Vancouver Canucks NHL 65 11 10 21

Stamkos and Yzerman reunion I can see

Red Wings fan here. Love Steve Y but this trade definitely gave me pause. There has to be something he's up to.

As a red wings fan I kind of hate this. If they needed the cap space I think they could of at least got a draft pick back. Walaman has a decent contract. Why give up a second on top of losing him?

Raymond and Seider are going to get big deals in the coming weeks. I also believe he's going to resign. Walman was a salary cap casualty. There are probably more to come and a buy-out of either Holl or Chiarot.

Yeah, I'm stumped. What is Stevie, REALLY, up to?

I think he is lining up for something big

They have to extend Lucas Raymond now, no? That will be a jump.

Space for his old captain to come to Detroit

I swear, one more damn video calling the sharks side nothing. We’re gonna fight.

Interesting!🐣

Red Wings fan here. He can go in a bunch of different directions with this. I think he’ll buyout Holl if he can’t get someone to take his contract freeing up another couple of million and then he’ll try to bring back Kane and Ghost and sign another big forward or he goes after Saros and maybe re-signs one of those two. If he signs Saros then I could see him buying out Husso too.