It’s a youth-driven league, and the quality of the NHL's restricted free agents this summer is deep. lukefoxjukebox examines where things stand with the top pending RFAs of 2021:
2017 Calder Cup champ with Grand Rapids. 2019 Team Canada silver medallist at IIHF worlds. Represented Detroit at 2020 NHL All-Star Game. First player in Red Wings history to record four consecutive three-point games. Back-to-back 21-goal, 47-point seasons in 2018-19 and 2019-20. Detroit needs all the top-line forwards it can get.The skilled and bruising Bertuzzi went through arbitration in the 2020 off-season, settling with Yzerman on a one-year, $3.5-million pact, closer to the $3.
Bertuzzi injured his back on Jan. 28 against Dallas, but a troubling recovery pushed him to seek a second opinion and he had an operation on April 30. "Honestly, it was a really tough year and I'm looking to just put it past me and get ready for next year.""It's just a slow process initially after surgery and gradually ramp things up," Yzerman said on locker cleanout day."Tyler, as you know, is pretty quiet. He doesn't say a lot. He is very upbeat and positive. We expect him to be full steam ahead in September.
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