Red Wings agree to 2-year, $8M deal with goalie Petr Mrazek

The Detroit Red Wings and goaltender Petr Mrazek have come to terms on a new contract that provides the team some breathing room.

The Atlantic Division club inked defenseman Danny Dekeyser to a six year, $30 million deal on Tuesday morning, officially pushing the club over the salary cap for the coming year. In his three seasons with the Broncos he played in 118 games, scoring 12 goals and racking up 37 assists. He has also made 10 career National Hockey League postseason appearances, owning a 4-6 record, 1.88 goals-against average, 0.931 save percentage and three shutouts.

Ericsson is now making $4.25MM per season on a 7-year contract, which has 5 more years still left.

The 23-year-old Swede collected two assists and 13 penalty minutes in 27 games last season with Nashville.

Lightning general manager Steve Yzerman announced the deal. But with rough $8 million to $9 million of cap space tied up in just goaltending now, the question arises: what happens with Jimmy Howard?

The Tampa Bay Lightning re-signed forward Vladislav Namestnikov to a two-year, $3.875 million contract Wednesday.

In the regular season, Mrazek posted a 2.33 goals against average and a save percentage of.