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Detroit Red Wings: Preseason and October

Posted on March 25, 2013 at 07:28 PM.

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Davidakiis' Detroit Red Wings
Be a GM
Season 1: Preseason and October

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The Season Story

After a tough summer with heartbreaks by both a first round loss to the Nashville Predators in 5 games and then the hanging up the skates of Franchise defenseman and Redwing captain Nicklas Lidstrom.
After making some minor moves in the off-season and bringing in overseas RW Damian Brunner, the Red Wings want to make a strong push with it's ageing roster, spear-headed by the trio of Nicklas Kronwall, New Captain Henrik Zetterberg, and Pavel Datsyuk.

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Pre-Season Trades

The first thing I did as GM of Detroit was purge their prospect pool of career AHL's and low grade prospects.
I traded of all prospects with less than 3 green stars and in return found myself with 2 first round picks, 2 seconds, 2 thirds, and one of each 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th rounders for this year and a 3rd rounder next year. Also acquired LW Brandon Saad from Chicago(3.5 gold stars)

At that point I was going to roll into the season, until the NJ Devils sent me a trade for LW Patrick Elias. At 36 years old and 1 year left on a $6 million contract. I thought it would be a nice addition to the offense, I accepted the deal and sent to the Devils: RW Brooks Macek/LW Marek Tvrdon and a 3rd round pick. Along with Elias I received a 3rd for Next year. With just over $10 Million in cap space

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Regular Season:October

After solidifying my starting line-ups with the Elias trade, I set my sights for the regular season with these lines.

Detroit Red Wings Depth Chart - 2012-13
	STARTER	2ND	3RD	4TH
LW	H. Zetterberg [89] (C)	P. Elias [82]	T. Bertuzzi [79]	D. Miller [78]
C	P. Datsyuk [95] (A)	V. Filppula[83]	D. Helm [81]	J. Abdelkader [78]
RW	D. Brunner [81]	J. Franzen [83]	D. Cleary [81]	J. Tootoo [77]
D #1	N. Kronwall [88] (A)	K. Quincey [83]	B. Smith [77]
D #2	I. White [84]	C. Colaiacovo [81]	J. Ericsson [77]
G	J. Howard [84]	J. Gustavsson

At the end of the first month of the season, my Red Wings are 7-2 with 14 points, tied for first in the West and leading my division. (2nd in league)

Henrik Zetterburg is currently leading the team with 10 points (3 g, 7 a) in
9 GP

Team Leaders Stats - 2012-13
Skaters	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-	GW	PIM	SOG	SPCT
[G] J. Franzen	9	5	0	5	4		4	37
[A] Henrik Zetterberg	9	3	7	10	4		0	32
[P] Henrik Zetterberg	9	3	7	10	4		0	32
[+/-] Ian White	9	0	3	3	5		8	17
[SOG] Johan Franzen	9	5	0	5	4		4	37
[PIM] Kyle Quincey	9	0	2	2	3		12	10
Goalies	GP	W	L	T	GAA	TOI	SV	SV%	SHO
[W] Jimmy Howard	9	7	2		1.75	584		.942	0