MISE À JOUR : Les Red Wings ont signé avec Austin Watson un contrat bidirectionnel d’un an.
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SimplySolace
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MISE À JOUR : Les Red Wings ont signé avec Austin Watson un contrat bidirectionnel d’un an.
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SimplySolace
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Yeah, not too mad about this. Gritty hardworking enforcer-type on the low for a year isn’t a bad investment.
Bultman was saying he wanted a one-way, but this is even better!
Source: [https://x.com/m_bultman/status/1843300032356974702](https://x.com/m_bultman/status/1843300032356974702)
Gritty Tigs, All Grit Lions… wings couldn’t be left out.
He looked good in preseason, I’m a fan.
Signing a guy whose only job is to be a deterrent is certainly a move, not a good move but it is a move. A 1980s esque one. This is nothing personal against Watson specifically, but we aren’t signing him for his hockey skills, and we have too many plugs already here so for me I just don’t see the vision. I get having increased physicality because I love that but if they aren’t good at the actual game of hockey on top of it then it’s just kind of a wasted spot.
Don’t like it, but it’s two way so who cares.
He’s greasy.
As much as the wings don’t have roster spots, he is a type of player the wings need.
Two-way is the absolute most important part of this
Now send him down for Kasper
The fact that it’s a two-way gives me hope that Stevie will be proactive in giving our young guys with skill some looks during the season if we’re lacking scoring. Hopefully things will be fluid with who we have as a 12th/13th forward
I like it, we need some toughness in this roster. Lalonde said in his presser “making the team” for a guy like Kasper is not really a thing, over the year, they’ll likely have 15 fwd 10 d playing for the team (callups for injuries). So you may not see marco first night but he’ll be there. We need a guy like watson to protect the guys and give them the reassurance that if you mess with one of our stars you’ll be meeting with Austin Watson with no teeth
We need the grit. Watching the Leafs goon squad crush Danielson and then the Leafs crushed another one of our other guys (only seen the clip ones), going on to score… I like this signing.
Wearing Chris Chelios’ number because he is a player of equal quality 🫡
Called this the first week of the pre season but the reactions are much more reasonable than expected.
Watson is not taking Kaspers spot on the roster, he’s likely to be a press box fixture for a lot of games. The person in Kaspers spot is Berggren
Rewatched the Friday game last night – can someone help me understand why it’s helpful to have an “enforcer” type like this if the end result is 7 minutes of penalty kill?
He will wear the Priority patch with pride considering he is garbage.
Better put him in GR right now
Hockey is so fucking predictable
He’s coming to Ottawa with us
Do the Wings know that he’s a bit of a meme in the hockey fighting world? He loses every fight. Like literally every one.
I’m not seeing the Vision with this roster…
Good. With teams like Ottawa and Florida playing the way they do, I like having someone who can answer the bell.